Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site hwcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cstvax!hwcs!greg From: greg@hwcs.UUCP (Greg Michaelson) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want? Message-ID: <680@hwcs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 06:25:25 EST Article-I.D.: hwcs.680 Posted: Thu Nov 7 06:25:25 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 03:58:07 EST References: <723@inset.UUCP> <960@erix.UUCP> <1569@hammer.UUCP> <6066@utzoo.UUCP> <1581@hammer.UUCP> <18@diku.UUCP> <1612@hammer.UUCP> Organization: Computer Sci., Heriot-Watt U., Scotland Lines: 15 > In article <18@diku.UUCP> kimcm@diku.UUCP (Kim Christian Madsen) writes: > > > Can you imagine a keyboard with 65535 different characters available, > > *WOUW* (-; > > I'd rather not, actually. One possibility is that the terminal can > *display* any character, but the keyboard remains a reasonable size. > There could be an optional second keyboard with additional characters. There's a research project ( Southampton Uni ???) which is putting light matrix displays into keys to show the characters the keys currently activate. When a new character set is programmed the key displays get updated. With a character set menu it might be possible to pull down huge character sets in manageable chunks. Maybe an intelligent system could learn/predict when different characters are used in different contexts?