Re: Rant on character sets
- From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steveo@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:25:47 +0000
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:49:50 +0100
"[Jongware]" <IdontWantSpam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Sure - all the characters you wanted (if your client understands
UTF-8 and you have the font support for it).
And a keyboard big enough to display 65,000-odd characters. The advantage
would be you could also type all Unicode-aware languages [*].
[*] Except for the full Chinese set, that'd require a keyboard add-on.
Unicode defines more than 2^16 codepoints in its extended state.
Yes unicode in full defines 2^20 codepoints (although most of them
are not yet assigned - only 99,000 odd in Unicode 5). I was thinking about
the keyboard problem recently, the best I have come up with was a touch
screen big enough to display a grid of 256 glyphs with a name and
controls to select a grid coupled with a dynamic area (a couple of lines)
to stash frequently used characters from rarely used sets (drag and drop
seems sensible for populating it). Not great but a lot better than most of
the "input methods" I have seen for anyone that really needs to use it.
Of course getting such a thing built is another problem, as is
figuring out how many would sell (my gut says not too many).
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