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From: Rob Speer <rspeer@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: [lojban] Re: Lojban keyboard layout
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On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:37:16PM -0500, xod wrote:
> Q? W? H? (Should be the shifted apostrophe, if anything at all). Why a 
> dash? And the dot demoted away from the home row? What sort of Lojban 
> text was used to evolve this layout, I wonder. It makes more sense for 
> Klingon.

xod, I didn't write the program. The program conserves the number of
keys on the keyboard, so there's no way it would generate a layout
without Q, W, and H. That's why they're shoved into the corners.

-- 
Rob Speer