From: Alex Bochannek (alex@p9.com)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 18:32:05 EDT
I have been looking into this for many years and talked to numerous
keyboard manufacturers. While the benefits of such a device are obvious for
multilingual computing, heavily modal software would benefit from it as
well. It appears that the production cost would be too high for most
manufacturers to be of commercial interest though.
I can forward a scan from a magazine news column (February 1986) where such
a device was actually offered. If anybody is seriously interested in
pursuing this, I would be more than happy to discuss it.
Alex.
--On Thursday, July 24, 2003 9:25 PM +0200 Don Osborn <dzo@bisharat.net>
wrote:
> This very idea was brought up a few months ago at
> http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/a12n-collaboration/msg0041
> 1.html (see end of message). It's a dream that would facilitate making
> the most of Unicode's potential, and hopefully it's already on the
> drawing board somewhere.
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