Re: Pen-gesture keyboard for Hindi

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:
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> At 02:17 06/04/12, Mark Davis wrote:
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> >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.
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> 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.
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> But this is just a guess.
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> Regards,   Martin.
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> >Mark
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> >Chris Lilley wrote:
> >> Hello ,
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> >> I thought this might be interesting, partly for the I18n aspect and 
> partly for the pen-based, gesture modality of text entry.
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> >>  
> 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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