Yes, it exists that keyboard as John has shown. But I think that the next step is different. I think the most useful thing would be that the keyboard be another screen, but a "tactil"-digital one. I think that this option would develope all the possibilities of Unicode. I am not talking of a keyboard in the main screen, like in the Ipad, what is another great idea. For instance, I work in a netbook. I have thought lately that these problems with keyboards layouts will be solved if instead of the physical keyboard, it would be a screen (could be a monitor of digital-ink like in the Ebook-readers) in which the actual keyboard layout that set the user would be shown, or perhaps a normal screen that adopts that role if the laptop/netbook is in "working position" (in other circumstances could be a two screen gadget for other functions). And new keyboard-layouts could be developed with special sections like "IPA chars" or "programming-languages oriented chars". (Only theorizing). I know this is imagination only, but I think this kind of developments could make easier and, mainly, more comfortable a lot of work for a lot of people. If anybody wants/can afford to try, this idea is free, like beer. Cheers! J.F.F.
2010/5/4 Wilfred van Rooijen <wvanrooi...@yahoo.com> > Hi all, > > This seems to be precisely the issue. Xetex can read and understand all > unicode characters, but at this time, the only way to communicate with the > computer is through the keyboard and the mouse. Thus, there will always be > issues with "special characters". I don't know if it exists, and if not it > may be interesting to develop, but a keyboard with LCD keys would be nice. > Then one can switch layout, and the characters on the keys appear > differently. Of course, there would still be strange side-effects, such as a > CJK space, which is really a 2-byte space, and xetex does not treat it as a > regular space (rather, treats it like ~, I suppose). > > Cheers, > Wilfred > >
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