Re: Bopomofo keyboards in Taiwan

At 09:18 -0400 2005-08-31, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>But without _learning to read an alphabet_, people _cannot_ divide a
>syllable into anything smaller.

I think that any Vai who wants to use a computer will have to learn
to read an alphabet, and pretending that this is not true is just
plain silly.

> > >I don't know what "the Ethiopic 'standard' keyboard" may be,
>>
>> It is not a formal Ethiopian National Standard specification (yet),
>> but it is the most common computer keyboard configuration available
>> on various platforms.
>
>So there is no Ethiopic standard keyboard.

There evolved a convergence of practice (i.e. de-facto standard), and
the Ethiopian Quality and Standards Authority is working on a formal
national standard (which is based on that practice), as I am informed
by my colleagues.
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Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com