Re: [idn] How to match letters

[Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>]

Ms. Ye,

You'll recall that you offered the assertion that a keyboard was universal.
A counter-example was provided, there are _several_ more. The suggestion of
a user-weighting scheme (below) is incomprehensible in this context, given
your starting point of suggesting to encode mathematical glyphs present in
some particular reference repitoire -- at least I'm confused.

However, feel free to progress your issues within the broad ACE advocacy
community. I've limited interest in 63-element encoding schemes for sets
containing several orders of magnitude more elements.

If you are interested in mathematics on the web, there is a w3c activity
in that area. If you are interested in mathematics and typesetting, or
mathematics and TeX, or PostScript, or ... the .math. portion of the usenet
hierarchy is a good place to start for non-mathematicians.

Eric

> If it is, I'd like to see the keyboard map.  If it is still in use, then
> it can be registered for a specific "language" user group.   The
> language tags have been proposed is a vary large set, this only
> shows that to treat every language user group fairly, we need to
> provide a tool for equal opportunity to the Internet, not to limit
> the access to any specific minority.  As to how many will be 
> registered on the net, it dependens on the applicant provides 
> enough prove on the size of the existing users,  the potential 
> users and frequency of the users.  That is a politic issue.  Let us 
> hand that problem to politicians. 
> 
>> Umm. A typing element for the IBM Selectric typerwriters was 
>> developed
>> for the then-new syllabic system in 1976, for Inuktitut, and could 
>> be
>> used for any Cree (etc., modernly UCAS) text. That would be 
>> universally
>> approved Inuktitut.
>> 
>> Eric