Don Osborn wrote: > What are the possibilities of extended keyboard options on mobile > devices for extended Latin characters to facilitate multilingual text > composition? What is current thinking / practice wrt expanding virtual > keyboards? > > This gets beyond Unicode proper to ISO/IEC 9995 and perhaps ISO/IEC > 14755, so may be beyond the scope of the list. Any responses off-list > I can summarize if of wider interest.
You mentioned mobile devices, but also mentioned ISO/IEC 9995 and 14755, which seem to deal primarily with computer keyboards. On Windows, John Cowan's Moby Latin keyboard [1] allows the input of more than 800 non-ASCII characters, including the two mentioned in your post (ɛ and ɔ): AltGr+p, o 0254 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O AltGr+p, e 025B LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E Moby Latin is a strict superset of the standard U.S. English keyboard; that is, none of the standard keystrokes were redefined, unlike keyboards such as United States-International which tend to redefine keys for ASCII characters that look like diacritical marks, making adoption difficult. There are also versions of Moby based on the standard U.K. keyboard. [1] http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2013/09/us-moby-latin-keyboard-for-windows.html -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, CO, US | ewellic.org