RE: Deseret keyboard (was:Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001)

From: Carl W. Brown (cbrown@xnetinc.com)
Date: Wed Oct 03 2001 - 13:24:28 EDT


Doug,

I suspect that since it was a phonetic spelling system and the writings
varied with the writer's pronunciation that individualized keyboard layouts
could be a personal preference as well.

Carl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
> Behalf Of DougEwell2@cs.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 10:44 PM
> To: unicode@unicode.org
> Cc: michka@trigeminal.com; jenkins@apple.com
> Subject: Deseret keyboard (was:Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001)
>
>
> In a message dated 2001-10-02 22:04:41 Pacific Daylight Time,
> michka@trigeminal.com writes:
>
> >> I still live in hopes that someone, John or someone else, will one
> >> day send me a Deseret keyboard layout that is at least SLIGHTLY
> >> standard (meaning more than one person has ever used it).
> >>
> >> I need something I can download and read on a Windows machine.
> >> Text or a GIF would be fine.
> >
> > I have a hard time picturing what such a layout would *look*
> like... what
> > the heck would someone who uses the language expect, anyway? :-)
>
> Well, careful now. The language is English. You mean "someone
> who uses the
> script."
>
> I tried creating a Deseret keyboard for (and with) SC UniPad, using the
> Dvorak keyboard layout as a loose model. By that I do not at all
> mean that I
> mapped Latin letters on the Dvorak keyboard to "equivalent"
> Deseret letters,
> but rather that I put the most common letters (as determined from a large
> chunk of text in Deseret) on the home row and relegated the least common
> letters to Alt+Gr (Ctrl+Alt) combinations. The biggest problem,
> of course,
> is that there are 38 of the buggers and so these Alt+Gr combinations are
> necessary.
>
> My keyboard is all right, I guess, but it is completely my own
> invention and
> I really know nothing about the engineering that goes into proper
> keyboard
> design. I'd feel better with something designed by someone who
> had a clue,
> and/or something that has seen some actual use. Not that there
> are an awful
> lot of users, mind you.
>
> -Doug Ewell
> Fullerton, California
>



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