On 18 Dec 2008, at 20:40, <dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us> wrote:
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.
Right. So the best one can hope for is a series of keyboard maps that
perhaps unify groups of characters, that those that so like may use.
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.
Mac OS X has a keyboard layout that allows one to enter a character by
its Unicode number (code point). So there is then already at least one
keyboard map that covers all Unicode characters. But it isn't very
convenient.
On the other hand, it is easy to switch keyboard maps, on mine it is
<command><space>.
So it might be possible to make one layout for entering notes and
accidentals. One can make a whole series, of course, that only needs
somebody willing to do it. But keyboard maps can of course handle
combining character sequences as well, covering many more characters.
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.
I do not know what they use - check on the Unicode list. One in the
past that was claimed to be fast was to do some typing an then getting
a display of possibilities, which one then chooses from. Modern fonts
can typeset by radicals, so they do not need to store all characters;
perhaps that can be used for typing as well.
Hans
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