But there's NO standard keyboard in Kazakhstan with the Latin alphabet. Those you'll find are cyrillic keyboards with a way to type basic Latin. Or keyboards made for other countries.
So this is not a good reason at all. In fact Kazakstan would have to create a keyboard standard for the Latin orthography, and there's no reason to not place diacritics or precombined common letters in their new alphabet. For now it looks they just decided to do nothing at all, meaning that people will use various foreign Latin layouts, and to be cost effective, they'll look at those keyboards already used in nearby countries using Latin orthographies (Romania, Moldavia, Poland, Turkey). I can understand they don't want the technical trick and difficulties of dotted vs undotted I used in Turkish, but a single diacritic would have solved it (and it is part of their solution which uses an apostrophe but could as well have been an acute), a diacritic which is present in precombined letters on many European keyboards). In my opinion they should still have based a Kazakh keyboard that uses the same location as existing Cyrillic letters, it would have sommethed the transition. Now typing separate apostrophes in Latin Kazakh will just slow down the input and strain a single finger too frequently to the same small key on the top keys row... People won't like it at all... they'll stick on using the Cyrillic keyboards, and only an IME will convert what they type to transliterate it to Latin: if ther's an IME, the fact it will be using apostrophes or diacritics will be equivalent (but corrections of text in Kazakh will be less problematic for what is really perceived as a single letter but now being two separate characters (press ony one key, generate two base characters, but need to press backspace twice for correction, and added complication when selecting text because now you have separate grapheme clusters and the apostrophe can play different roles as a modifier where it should form a cluster, or as an elision mark where it is a placeholder for separate letters, or as a separate punctuation sign for quotation...) 2018-01-20 21:04 GMT+01:00 Simon Montagu via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>: > On 19/01/18 15:37, Philippe Verdy via Unicode wrote: > > May be the IDN could accept a new combining diacritic (sort of > > right-side acute accent). After all the Kazakh intent is not to define a > > new separate character but a modification of base letter to create a > > single letter in their alphabet. > > Hardly. If they insist on using a modifier character available on > "standard" keyboards instead of already-encoded letters and/or > diacritics, they are unlikely to be interested in new characters. > >