Hi Marc Wilhelm, > In this brave new world of wonderful input methods, what is > the current state of affairs for keyboard-based input methods > for characters from the IPA block? Is there any de facto standard > for this and, for that matter, for an IPA keyboard layout?
I'm not aware of a standard either (maybe the Keyman keyboards distributed by SIL for their SIL phonetic fonts come closest to one, in terms of widest distribution), but I guess any *international* standard would be highly problematic anyway - any key mnemonics are bound to fail for users that are accustomed to one national keyboard and not another. Personally, I've come to use my own home-grown Keyman method for Unicode IPA. Maybe I am and shall remain the only person in this world who finds the layout intuitive, but it works for me. Since it's based on the layout of a German keyboard, you might find it worth having a look at: http://people.freenet.de/LukasPietsch/Keyman/Keyboards.html Hope this helps, Lukas
