Am Montag, 28. Mai 2012 um 19:02 schrieb Doug Ewell: DE> ISO/IEC 9995-9 cannot be implemented natively on Microsoft Windows; it DE> requires a third-party add-on package such as Keyman, which is not free.
It is too early to blame Microsoft (or anybody else) on this. The ISO/IEC 9995 series does not define keyboard layouts itself, but provides a framework on which (national and other) standards which define a keyboard layout can rely or refer to. As said in an earlier posting, the part 9995-9 is now in DIS, which means that its final version will be published 2013 or 2014. Thus, national standards referring to this part will hardly be published before 2015. Thus, there is enough time for any manufacturer of operating systems or third-party software suppliers to announce their support of any keyboard layout compliant with a standard referring to ISO/IEC 9995-9. The fact that Microsoft until now does not support ISO/IEC 9995-3:2010 "Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric section", which is required e.g. by the German standard DIN 2137:2012 to be published in June, is a different issue. (But, referring to the original thread topic, 9995-3 does not contain the new Indian Rupee sign.) - Karl