Re: [lojban] Re: Alternative Orthography. Yes, another one.

[Jay F Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>]

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.)

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Jay Kominek <jkominek@miranda.org>
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