In article <281c8ce1-4f03-4e93-b5cd-d45b85e89...@googlegroups.com>, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> And Chris is right in (rephrasing) we may have unicode-happy OSes and > languages. We cant reasonably have unicode-happy keyboards. > [What would a million-key keyboard look like? Lets leave the cost aside...] In a true unicode environment, the input device may be nothing like our current keyboards. Star Trek has been amazingly accurate about it's predictions of the future. Doors that open automatically as you approach them are now routine. One thing they messed up on was mobile devices; they assumed tricorders and communicators would be separate devices, when in reality our phones now perform both functions. Today's 3-d printers are giving replicators a run for their money. Some people still get bent out of shape when a white man kisses a black woman, but we're working on that. When's the last time you saw somebody typing commands to a computer on Star Trek? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
