Amr, > To follow your lead, however, Arabic ~ could go next with the Roman one.
The key holding the Roman ~ will now work for both Arabic and English now > I do not dare place letters before that frequency study is done. > However, these are things I would like to see changed: > > 1. The period "." and comma "،" without Shift combinations, and "," > demoted and moved above one of the numerals. Its use is restricted to > numbers only > 2. د moved towards the center. This key is very unreachable for us > left-handed. We are 5% of any population. where would you put it? I am confident that ى is less frequently used than د > > Most of the keyboard is arranged so that similar-looking letters go > next to each other. This is far from being efficient. Would you know > anyone who statistically can come up with a good statistical study of > letter frequencies in Modern Standard Arabic, Khaled? Anyone? > I obviously don't have access to such data. Jim suggested a lead that I will follow, but does anyone know of an individual or an institution that might have done such analysis. Kind Abdul-Aziz university for Instance!! _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
