- From: Bruno Girin (Cambista) <cambista@triskeltech.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:59:38 +0100
- To: Mark Davis <mark.davis@icu-project.org>
- CC: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, www-international@w3.org, www-multimodal@w3.org
Not if you consider that, according to the articles, it is meant to be used by people who have never used a traditional western keyboard and have probably spent all their lives thinking in grapheme clusters rather than individual letters, when they write. I don't know anything about Hindi but I assume that if the language's written form is based on syllables, having to learn what combination of keys on a keyboard produce each syllable can be a hurdle in educating people about computers because they have to first learn a brand new way to write their own language. What I find interesting about this, if I follow the article correctly, is that it provides a fresh look at data input for languages that are not alphabet-based and are typically difficult to input using a keyboard. Maybe it will never prove to be a viable alternative but having someone consider any alternative is good IMHO. Mark Davis wrote: > > 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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