At 11:45 +0200 2002-07-10, Marc Wilhelm K�ster wrote: >In this brave new world of wonderful input methods, what is the >current state of affairs for keyboard-based input methods for >characters from the IPA block?
Nothing standard exists, but a lot of de facto input methods are similar, so open-e (epsilon) will be on shift-e, esh on shift-s and so on. But they differ; some put open-o on shift-o, others on shift-c. A number of suppliers have solutions which differ in one way or another depending on the 8-bit font set they were supporting. >Is there any de facto standard for this and, for that matter, for an >IPA keyboard layout? The world could benefit from a little coordination on this. I wonder. There is a group, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED], which was formed some time ago to discuss IPA and Unicode. I don't know how active it is; I resubscribed yesterday. However, now might be a good idea to talk about this, and that list is probably the best place to do it. To subscribe to the Transcription list, send "subscribe transcription" to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be good if people could forward this to some other lists where interested people could be found. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
