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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

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    1. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      (I’m not an expert, so please please correct me if I’m interpreting something wrong – or missing important things, also on Android.)

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    2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      Some international keyboards make small modifications – AZERTY, QWERTZ, extra diacritics, etc.pic.twitter.com/xhP7iX6YIB

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      (Note: There’s recent evidence that AZERTY and QWERTZ were very intentional, even if they look just like lazily modified QWERTY.)

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      For those with a few more diacritics (e.g. Czech), an option is to add a dead key to help put together more letters than keys.pic.twitter.com/MdgV2y1T42

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      That idea is taken a bit further for scripts that combine letters more extensively, e.g. Bengali (the world’s 5th most used writing system.)pic.twitter.com/voT6wn0Zrx

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      Bengali is also a good reminder that not all digits look the same (here, 4 looks like Arabic 8, and only 0 might look familiar outside).pic.twitter.com/04hM0oR2px

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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      This is not the mechanical world of typewriters, so Finnish can add one more column, making the keys a bit narrower. Turkish adds two!pic.twitter.com/sNFB8dq7QA

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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      On the other hand, Greek feels pretty sparse, at only 24 letters. It’s the most relaxed keyboard of them all.pic.twitter.com/RC47ZulskZ

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    9. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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      Traditional Chinese zhuyin has four rows of keys, not three. And Thai is even more packed.pic.twitter.com/1H70RvizgO

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      Thai Shift is not shifting between cases; it just swaps to another part of its alphabet. (Thai alphabet has 59 letters, I think?)pic.twitter.com/6dkBsA8XjJ

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      Tibetan has an extra something next to the space. Does anyone know what it is?pic.twitter.com/mfdrYGnbBc

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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          The winner for most accents is… Vietnamese.pic.twitter.com/nC9vmdgg16

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          Some have cool symbols hiding inside: Greek has an interpunct (mid dot). Japanese different brackets, and a key for emoticons (kaomoji).pic.twitter.com/aKGNeRoQK1

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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 22 Jun 2017
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          Ah, thanks!!! I looked briefly at this page, must’ve missed this.

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        2. Eden Golshani‏ @edeng 22 Jun 2017
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          it's called a "tseg" you put it at the end of every syllable. it doesn't use spaces between words either.

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          example: ti-be-tan-can-be-a-hard-lan-guage-to-learn. (where each dash is akin to a tseg)

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        2. Brent Woo‏ @BrentPWoo 22 Jun 2017
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          Syllable demarcation. No interword spaces in Tibetan (like Thai, Chinese) but each syllable is separated by that dot

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          What happens if you skip it? How does it change the language?

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