Karl Pentzlin wrote:
As said in an earlier posting, the part 9995-9 is now in DIS, which
means that its final version will be published 2013 or 2014. Thus,
national standards referring to this part will hardly be published
before 2015.
Thus, there is enough time for any manufacturer of operating systems
or third-party software suppliers to announce their support of any
keyboard layout compliant with a standard referring to ISO/IEC 9995-9.
Again, just speaking about one platform (Windows) that seems to be in
somewhat common use, the problem is that the underlying architecture
doesn't support multiple dead keys on a single base character, nor does
it support a fifth, sixth, etc. shift state (unless one chooses to be
reckless and use Ctrl). This is unlikely to change in the next two to
three years. It isn't a matter of providing a layout—otherwise, anyone
with MSKLC and a supported Windows version could create one.
The fact that Microsoft until now does not support ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010
"Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric
section", which is required e.g. by the German standard DIN 2137:2012
to be published in June, is a different issue.
Microsoft can never support ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010 unless they change their
keyboard handling architecture, as above.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
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