Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 (Fortune 01.1b1); site graffiti.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!graffiti!peter From: peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.internat Subject: Re: What do we REALLY want? Message-ID: <372@graffiti.UUCP> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 09:11:05 EST Article-I.D.: graffiti.372 Posted: Thu Oct 31 09:11:05 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 14:25:17 EST References: <723@inset.UUCP> <960@erix.UUCP> <1569@hammer.UUCP> <6066@utzoo.UUCP> <1581@hammer.UUCP> <18@diku.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 25 > However to use LATIN, japanese, chinese, arabic, hebraian and other > characters types simultaneously on the same keyboard isn't going to > work well. What you need for the multiple-languages problem is a dynamic keyboard. For instance, you could use an LCD touch-screen for the keyboard & display the currently-selected character set... this would also solve the problem of switching between Qwerty, Dvorak, and some of the more exotic layouts that have been proposed. And for the problem of the large number of glyphs in oriental character sets, I believe there are already systems that address this problem. They provide a katakana keyboard, and after entering a word a selection of kanji characters is displayed for the operator to select the correct one from. (I hope I have the correct terms here). Combining the two ideas, you could have the *keyboard* itself change to one containing the possible kanji for a given word after entering each world. I know there are UNIX sites in Japan. Are there any on this net? -- Name: Peter da Silva Graphic: `-_-' UUCP: ...!shell!{graffiti,baylor}!peter IAEF: ...!kitty!baylor!peter