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

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