[B-Greek] Greek Keyboards: An Even Better Solution

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 19:01:24 EDT 2011


Why do we? C'mon. We are free to do whatever way works better for us.

In the age of versatile computing, not of mechanical device of
typewriters, one can have any keyboard layout to fit the need, be it
left-handed, right-handed, both handed, etc. One's own layout will do.
On the current computer keyboards available, we cannot remap keys to
mimick a Maltron (British one) layout.  There is no reason why one HAS
TO use a layout dictated by the ones used in native countries. QWERTY
was invented to avoid jamming of keys when fast typing, intentionally
making it slow to type (hence Dvorak).

In my native Korean there have been several. The latest one was poor
adaptation of mechanical typewriter layout mentality. I have my own
(but yet to make it work with MS IME, a MS Windows internal program to
combine phonetic alphabet input to syllabic character output).

Oun Kwon.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jason Hare <jason at thehebrewcafe.com> wrote:
>
> Dear B-Greekers,
>
> I have to agree with those who suggest everyone not use the keyboards that
> were not created by those in the countries where the languages are used. I
> used to use legacy fonts for Hebrew and Greek, too. I never could have
> predicted that I was going to move to Israel, and I'm more than glad that I
> took the time to learn the Israeli keyboard layout. I can type Hebrew on any
> computer in Israel (whether at work or in the university) without having to
> download and install special programs. The same would be true of Greek
> should I choose to go to Greece at any point. I love the polytonic Greek
> keyboard layout that is released with Windows. I don't see the problem
> people have with learning the keyboard layouts. They're completely
> reasonable layouts.
>
> Why do people feel the need to make new layouts and rearrange everything?
> Why not just learn what we have and become proficient with them? I'm lost as
> to the WHY behind this whole discussion.
>
> Regards,
> Jason Hare



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