[B-Greek] Koine Kasruth (Especially Keyboards)
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 11:41:27 EDT 2011
georgos egrapse
>I won't speak regarding Syriac since my exposure to
it is rather limited.>
Syriac likes to use an Arabic-based keyboard.
And you'll never guess: I recommend using an "Arabic" keyboard for
Arabic, too. (And French for French, when working in that language--
but I haven't for 15 years.)
However, it would make sense to develop a Hebrew-based keyboard
since Syriac is really just Aramaic. It does have separate unicode
positions though, because of ligature writing, but these could be
handled with shift and alt. And there are fledgling Syriac-restoration
movements in Israel.
SARA DE PROSEQHKE
> If someone had an English keyboard based on a Greek
> arrangement, I wouldn't think it separated them from American
> culture. I would think it was a creative solution.
Except that they wouldn't be able to use any standard computer
keyboard anywhere in the world. I would recommend that students
be directed to learn QWERTY for English, even if they decide to use
DVORAK themselves. I suspect that's how most see it out in the real
world.
Randall Buth
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