- From: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 08:58:51 -0700
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- CC: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-international@w3.org, www-multimodal@w3.org
Right, but nobody ever used a 1000 key keyboard for Hindi, so the "news" about it replacing the need for it is a red herring. Mark Martin Duerst wrote: > > At 02:17 06/04/12, Mark Davis wrote: > > > >It looks very overblown to me; saw a news report about "a process > that would require up to 1,000 keys using a traditional keyboard" > which is bizarre for Indic. > > That range of number suggests that they are thinking about Hindi > in terms of syllables, treating each grapheme cluster as a unit. > In practice, there are about 1000-3000 such clusters in practical use. > > But this is just a guess. > > Regards, Martin. > > > >Mark > > > >Chris Lilley wrote: > >> Hello , > >> > >> I thought this might be interesting, partly for the I18n aspect and > partly for the pen-based, gesture modality of text entry. > >> > >> > http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/07/hp-provides-deets-on-gesture-keyboard/ > >> > http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/17/hp-indias-gesture-keyboard-for-pen-entry/ > > >> > >> > >> > > > > >
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