RE: Much better Latin-1 keyboard for Windows

From: Mike Ayers (mike.ayers@tumbleweed.com)
Date: Mon Jul 26 2004 - 17:24:05 CDT

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    > From: Alain LaBonté [mailto:alb@sct1.gouv.qc.ca]
    > Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 7:24 AM

    > [Alain] Here are the "pedantic" definitions of ISO/IEC 9995-1 (1994
    > version, which will be revised this year, most likely). There is no
    > other notion than "level" and "group":

    <SNIP/>
            Those are "precise" definitons, not "pedantic".

    > In less pedantic terms:

    <SNIP/>
            Oddly, that was the pedantic explanation I sought.

    > Any national group is group 1 by definition according to ISO/IEC 9995.
    > Group 2 is a Latin supplementary group to access those
    > Latin-script-written languages not accessible with a national group 1
    > also using Latin script. Other groups are still not numbered and their
    > actual access not standardarized.

            I am again baffled here. If "any national group" is group 1, then
    my U.S. keyboard layout, a German keyboard layout on a U.S. keyboard, a
    German layout on a German keyboard , and Michael's Irish Unicode setup, are
    all group 1? Certainly I misunderstand this. More pedantry, /si vous
    plais/.

    > 4.13 level select: A function that, if activated, will change the keyboard
    > state to produce characters from a different level.
    >
    > 4.10 group select: A function that, if activated, will change the keyboard
    > state to produce characters from a different group.

            These definitions, as well as the definitions of "level" and
    "group", don't seem to make particular distinction between the two. Does
    any hard distinction exist?

            Thanks,

    /|/|ike

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