On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 02:14:17PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > On 5/26/2013 1:44 PM, Hans W. Uhlig wrote: > >Using those characters would be wonderful and while we do have > >unicode software support we don't really have unicode hardware > >support. I am still on my 102 key keyboard and I haven't really seen > >a good expanded character keyboard come along. > > I have a post-it stuck to my monitor with the numbers for various > unicode characters, but I just can't see that for writing code.
I have been thinking about this idea of a "reprogrammable keyboard", in that the keys are either a fixed layout with LCD labels on each key, or perhaps the whole thing is a long touchscreen, that allows arbitrary relabelling of keys (or, in the latter case, complete dynamic reconfiguration of layout). There would be some convenient way to switch between layouts, say a scrolling sidebar or roller dial of some sort, so you could, in theory, type Unicode directly. I haven't been able to refine this into an actual, implementable idea, though. T -- Shin: (n.) A device for finding furniture in the dark.
