Special Characters

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 15 Jun 2011 at 22:52, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:

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> Tim wrote:
> 
> > Ever more, the need for the standard QWERTY keyboard (and its ilk) to be
> > abandoned has increased.  It's inadequate for anything more than primary
> > school beginner's English.
> 
> I've always wanted a keyboard that has the letters arranged in order. It 
> makes no sense for me, and likely 95% of other computer users, to have querty 
> or other unnatural key arrangements. I realize that they are based on 
> character frequency in English, which serve only stenographers who:
> 
Dvoark keyboard was designed for most keys used.
The QWERTY was designed to not jam as much with the old 
mechanical typewriters. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard



> type with all 10 fingers, instead of picking with 2-3 fingers, like most 
> people do; and
> 
> write in only one language
> 
> Your suggestion of having extra keys for diactical and punctuation marks and 
> symbols is definitely a good one. It would be difficult to standardize all of 
> this to accommodate all languages, but to standardize it for all languages 
> that use the Roman alphabet and Arabic numerals, like most European languages 
> do, should not be that difficult. I wish manufacturers would put some thought 
> into this.
> 
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