On Thursday 21 August 2003 3:37, Kent Karlsson wrote: > Danilo Segan wrote: > > > I like the idea. While working on my proposal, I thought that a main > > > keymap per script was the way to go. Have a latin, cyrillic, greek, > > > gujarati base, and change from there (qwerty, azerty, etc.). > > > > At least cyrillic keyboards differ too much for this to work -- eg. > > there are many "phonetic" keyboards (which are similar with english > > ones based on the "sound") and there are completely different ones (a > > standard Russian I believe to be an example of this). > > That gives at least two *basic* layouts for Cyrillic, probably less than > a handfull *basic* layouts for Cyrillic (there being two [that I know > of] for Latin). The reast would be per language modifications of that.
There are more for Latin, depending on what you consider *basic*: qwerty, qwertz, azerty, dvorak, and svorak. Unless you consider *basic* to be qwerty and dvorak (which would be fair). Frank _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
