Windows keyboard restrictions

Richard Wordingham richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com
Thu Aug 6 12:32:32 CDT 2015


On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:00:21 -0700
"Doug Ewell" <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> Seriously, please take this to Microsoft or to one of the forums where
> the Driver Development Kit is discussed. This has nothing to do with
> Unicode.

That depends on the availability of Tavultesoft Keyman.  The UK has been
discussing whether a certain user-perceived character should be encoded
as a single character in a new script.  Users ought to have this
character on their keyboards, but there is a worry about technical
problems if it is encoded as a sequence of three characters, i.e. six
UTF-16 code units.  If Windows easily supports a ligature of six UTF-16
code units, then one argument for encoding it is eliminated.

Richard.


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