Wogb3 j3k3: Pre-Unicode substitutions for extended characters live on

[Doug Ewell]

Don Osborn wrote:

> What are the possibilities of extended keyboard options on mobile
> devices for extended Latin characters to facilitate multilingual text
> composition? What is current thinking / practice wrt expanding virtual
> keyboards? 
>
> This gets beyond Unicode proper to ISO/IEC 9995 and perhaps ISO/IEC
> 14755, so may be beyond the scope of the list. Any responses off-list
> I can summarize if of wider interest. 

You mentioned mobile devices, but also mentioned ISO/IEC 9995 and 14755,
which seem to deal primarily with computer keyboards.

On Windows, John Cowan's Moby Latin keyboard [1] allows the input of
more than 800 non-ASCII characters, including the two mentioned in your
post (ɛ and ɔ):

AltGr+p, o              0254    LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O
AltGr+p, e              025B    LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E

Moby Latin is a strict superset of the standard U.S. English keyboard;
that is, none of the standard keystrokes were redefined, unlike
keyboards such as United States-International which tend to redefine
keys for ASCII characters that look like diacritical marks, making
adoption difficult. There are also versions of Moby based on the
standard U.K. keyboard.

[1]
http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2013/09/us-moby-latin-keyboard-for-windows.html
 
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