Quim wrote: > > You are receiving this email as a maemo.org registered user. It's an > invitation > to take part in a survey organized by the Maemo community after a proposal > from > the Maemo Devices team at Nokia. > > The question is about keyboards in mobile devices. What characters to put, > what > characters to sacrifice?
Obvious question here is whether this is direct keys, blue-arrow keys or characters in the palette. I'm assuming it's to determine the relative placement of all three. You know it's a hot topic and maybe yourself have > thought sometimes: why do they put X which I don't used, while Y is missing? s/used/use/. However, I'd remove this sentence entirely. > $ % & ( ) < = > \ _ | ~ £ € I thought there was an argument that the currency symbols should be removed as within a market they're important (perhaps less so to a savvy user, but I can imagine the reviews if a UK device doesn't show a pound sign), but a lot less so outside that market. It's probably also worth saying that all these keys would be accessible *somehow*. Also, I'd suggest very carefully controlled test. Given the multi-regions receiving the email, the character encoding should be UTF-8, and this may require a change to the vote email sending thing. Character encoding issues are hard to get right (especially in a system which wasn't designed for top-bit set characters and has multiple clients working off a loose spec), but they are very visible when you get them wrong. Similarly, the voting page should have it's headers and bytes carefully inspected. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Flegg -- mailto:[email protected] | http://www.bleb.org/ _______________________________________________ maemo-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-community
