From jkominek@miranda.org Wed May 14 18:12:33 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Wed, 14 May 2003 18:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miranda.org ([209.58.150.153] ident=qmailr) by digitalkingdom.org with smtp (Exim 4.12) id 19G7IC-0003GL-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 18:12:20 -0700 Received: (qmail 3357 invoked by uid 534); 15 May 2003 01:12:19 -0000 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:12:19 -0600 From: Jay F Kominek To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one. Message-ID: <20030515011219.GM23703@miranda.org> References: <8FF0B0A3-8659-11D7-A120-003065E00134@free.fr> <20030514230458.13388.qmail@web20504.mail.yahoo.com> <20030514230648.GQ3216@digitalkingdom.org> <200305142051.34331.phma@webjockey.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200305142051.34331.phma@webjockey.net> Accept-Language: art-lojban, en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-archive-position: 5267 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: jkominek@miranda.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:51:33PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > I don't see what the barrier is. Operating systems nowadays come > with software keyboard layouts. I normally keep mine on a Dvorak > layout which lets me type accented letters by hitting > AltGr-apostrophe vowel (AltGr is the right Alt key), and with a > click of the mouse I can switch it to Greek, Russian, Hebrew, > German, or a Sholes layout (in case anyone wants to use it who > doesn't know Dvorak). Don't forget the trillions of dollars of installed point of sales equipment. (Or typewriters. Or, to a lesser extent, embedded systems. While only a small percentage of them would ever need to deal with user names, etc, a small percentage of the billions of embedded systems produced every year is nothing to sneeze at. ASCII is nice.) -- Jay Kominek http://www.longnow.org/