Romanized Singhala got great reception in Sri Lanka

[Jean-François Colson]

Le 16/03/14 21:30, Doug Ewell a écrit :
> Jean-François Colson <jf at colson dot eu> wrote:
>
>>> The idea was that characters not on an ordinary QWERTY keyboard could
>>> be entered using an ordinary QWERTY keyboard.
>>
>> That’s the raison-d’être of the Compose key available on most Linux/
>> Unix computers:
>
>>> If that idea were implemented today
>>
>> It is! But neither on Windows nor on MacOS.
>
> There are plenty of dead-key keyboard layouts available for Windows 
> and Mac computers. The sequences are different from using a Compose 
> key, but the principle is the same.

Of course, I know that. I already have examined the default keyboard 
layouts for Windows 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964651.aspx (there are a few 
mistakes on those maps), MacOS and GNU/Linux (folder 
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/).
My own everyday keyboard layout has no less than 20 (twenty) dead keys.

The idea here was “that characters not on an ordinary QWERTY keyboard 
could be entered _using_an_ordinary_QWERTY_keyboard._” Are there any 
dead keys on an _ordinary_ (i.e. not one using an international(ized) 
driver) QWERTY keyboard?

If a character is available by a dead key, isn’t it on the keyboard ?

>
> As Jean-François observed, the keyboard layout wasn't really the OP's 
> point.
>
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