Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> The problem is - most users wouldn't care less if there was a single
> clean layout per language or group of languages (we wouldn't
Yes, but that requires some standardisation effort.
> be in this mess for example if there was a single latin layout and
> countries hadn't had to invent variations on a common core to
> accommodate the glyphs qwerty forgot).
["glyphs" -> "characters"]
Ahem. There are quite a lot of 'latin letters that qwerty forgot', and
some are used quite frequently in some languages, and there deserve
their own keys, even on levels 1&2. For punctuation and symbols, I
agree with you more.
...
> The per-country optimisations are largely bogus - typewriter leftovers
> weight much more than what one could win by taking into account one
> glyph is used marginally more in a country than in its neighbours (and
That may be, but that argument does not take into account that some
frequent letters in one langauge's orthography may be rather hard to
type on a keyboard for another language; and the number of keys on
a keyboard is rather limited. Depending on how one wishes to count,
there is in the order of 1000 Latin letters. Many of them are composable
from a base letter + "diacritic" (or several diacritics), but that hold
for
far from all of the "non-ASCII" ones.
/kent k
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