On Thu, Dec 18, 2008, Hans Aberg <hab...@math.su.se> said: > If you want to fit all the world languages into one keyboard map, you > might join the Unicode list; there are more than 100000 characters > available.
Unicode is a good solution for recording the result internally, but as far as I know keyboard layout is still an open issue, with a variety of standards groups at the country level offereing script-specific solutions that are probably irreconcilable to any kind of universal solution. Last I knew (Mac OS 7) Apple had effective script-specific keyboard layouts for simple writing systems that allowed direct entry (once switched to), and employed special typing agents for indirect C J K entry. Could be worse, historical chinese typesetting not only required fluency, but also physical handling of some 60,000 individual 'sorts' of characters; imagine that set of cases. -- Dana Emery _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
