Philippe Verdy wrote: > The best they should have done is instead keeping their existing > keyboard layout, continaing both the Cyrillic letters and Latin QWERTY > printed on them, but operating in two modes (depending on OS > preferences) to invert the two layouts but without changing the > keystrokes. It would just have needed one Latin letter or modified > Latin letter so that it was simply a 1 to 1 transliteration.
The objective apparently was to be able use a U.S. English keyboard layout, AS IS, to type Kazakh-in-Latin. Adding new characters to the layout would defeat this purpose. Again, this may not be how you or I would solve the problem, and it may not be how the Kazakhs would solve the problem if there were no installed base (i.e. existing Latin-script keyboards with which compatibility was desired). As they say, the reason God was able to create the heavens and the earth in only 6 days was that there was no installed base to worry about. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org