On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:38:36 -0400, Alain LaBonté wrote: > The concept of group and group selection [...] was taken into > consideration by ISO with the intent to extend it to multiple > groups. However the multiple group model, if it exists, has not > been standarized yet and deployed fully in its modalities, but > time may have come for this.
For my national Romanian keyboard standard, I have defined two further concepts, somewhat inspired by MS Windows OS: - keyboard language; a system can have more than one language defined for a keyboard, to suit a particular need for local ethnic communities - character arrangement; a given keyboard language can have as many character arrangements as needed, to suit a particular need [mainly professional, but not limited to]; each character arrangement consist of one ore more group, each group defined in traditional ISO/IEC 9995-x way For the Romanian keyboard standard case, there is only one language defined, Romanian. For the Romanian keyboard standard case, there are now two "character arrangements": number one (the main one), called "Romanian" and number two, called "Romanian (Programmers)". I defined 4 groups, each with 2 levels. Then: - character arrangement one is group 1 + group 3 (plain & shift + AltGr & shiftAltGr). - character arrangement two is group 4 + group 5 (plain & shift + AltGr & shiftAltGr). I kept group 2 reserved for strictly implementations of ISO/IEC 9995-3 ... (and unused in my actual case) > For this we must rely on international > standarization, not on the will of only one individual Well, I hope that my original implementation does not harm much the international standardization :) Cristi
