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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
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 06:25:25 1985
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Organization: Computer Sci., Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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> 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?