Re: ISO 6438, the Niamey keyboard, and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG1

From: Don Osborn (dzo@bisharat.net)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 17:48:19 EDT

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    Thanks, Peter, this is very helpful - glad you could save your money and
    share the info. I've added the link to the "A12n" gateway page at
    http://www.bisharat.net/A12N/#char .

    Don Osborn
    Bisharat.net

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: <Peter_Constable@sil.org>
    To: <qalam@yahoogroups.com>; <unicode@unicode.org>
    Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:35 PM
    Subject: Re: ISO 6438, the Niamey keyboard, and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG1

    >
    > John Hudson wrote on 05/14/2003 12:07:25 PM:
    >
    > > I don't have details on hand, but the book in which I encountered the
    > > Niamey keyboard layout is entitled _A Thesaurus of African Languages_
    > > edited by Michael Mann and David Dalby (London. 1987). I note that there
    > > are two copies currently offered for sale on www.abe.com.
    >
    > At US$100, I'm glad to find that the library on our center has a copy. The
    > entire thing is done without capitals (except the title page, which the
    > publisher would have done) in order to reinforce their idea that capitals
    > aren't needed for the orthographies of African languages -- a bit of
    > overkill, I think.
    >
    > Anyway, I've put info on this keyboard layout on the Web at:
    >
    >
    http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=IntlNiameyKybd
    >
    >
    >
    > - Peter
    >
    >
    > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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    > Peter Constable
    >
    > Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
    > 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
    > Tel: +1 972 708 7485
    >
    >
    >
    >

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