(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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Replying to @mwichary
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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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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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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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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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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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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Thai "shift" accesses numbers up top, rarer symbols, some used only for Sanskrit/Pali words typically in liturgical texts
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I love the Thai layout. Middle columns are tone diacritics and vowels , well-suited to the abugida
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Oh wow, never heard of abugida before!
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