Peter,
I was the chairman of the keyboard standards committee for ACCESS.bus which
was the predecessor the USB. However Intel got impatient and developed the
USB standard. Unfortunately they only reserved 8 bits for the keyboard
language identifier. Had they done a better job you could really use the
field in the device driver and be able to use two keyboards with different
keyboard language layout codes. I am not clever enough to figure out how to
encode 6700 language in 8 bits. It is even worse because you can have
different language layouts. For example there are several very different
French keyboard layouts. The multiply it by the non-language variants such
as numeric keypad layout or function/ime/special keys
With a $10 keyboard it would be easy to plug in another keyboard when you
needed to type in the language or have two keyboards in different languages
plugged in at the same time.
Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org]On
Behalf Of Peter_Constable@sil.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:11 AM
To: unicode@unicode.org
Subject: Re: Deseret keyboard (was:Re: Special Type Sorts Tray 2001)
On 10/03/2001 10:48:29 AM John H. Jenkins wrote:
>Getting screen shots of my Deseret keyboard layout is a less than
>trivial task, so I'll try to describe it word-wise...
Except for the Caps Lock behaviour, this layout would be fairly
straightforward to setup for Windows using Keyman. A few stored arrays and
three rules ought to do it:
+ [K_Q] > deadkey(1)
+ any(RegKey) > index(RegChar,1)
deadkey(1) + any(DK_Key) > index(DK_Char,2)
Keyman 5 doesn't provide a way to make keystrokes sensitive to the caps
lock state. But the English QWERTY keyboard is really a distinct keyboard
layout, and I would be more inclined to have a Deseret layout be Deseret
only and get users to switch to an English QWERTY keyboard (or whatever
other keyboard they might want to use) rather than mix two different writing
systems into a single layout using the Caps Lock state to switch between
them.
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