Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
McKown, John wrote:
I vote for Unicode. I am really beginning to despise EBCDIC and all the
other "ad hoc" stuff to support multiple character sets.
I sympathize, having just worked through some bracket incompatibilities
with special software, but what would the keyboard look like? Eight
shift keys or worse ? <g>
Gerhard Postpischil
Bradford, VT
I've been trying for a couple of years now to interest
someone with deep pockets to go after this:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
It's a keyboard where everykey is a changeable image.
My concept is to have sets of keys that could be easily
switchable, each set covering a subset of the Unicode
mapping. So you could choose, say, English for your
everyday keyset; then if you had a need to enter some
Japanese, just load the mapping for a subset of the
Japanese characters you want by selecting from a menu
on the keyboard, type away, then switch back to your
everyday keyset.
People might make money building and selling specific
keysets for the keyboard.
I think it's viable, but would take some time, energy,
and money to develop.
From the same website:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus-tactus/
scroll down and look at the options.
Kind regards,
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