[net.internat] Standard keyboard?

rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (11/05/85)

> I'd like to see a 'standard western keyboard' that had all the
> characters for English, German, French, Swedish, etc., plus
> Greek for math/engr and for APL, a few of the common math symbols,
> and of course copyright and trademark symbols for all the net lawyers.
> :-)  A few simple graphics characters would be nice.  This is
> possible on a keyboard of reasonable size...

Technical feasability is not the obstacle.  Consider the arguments against
the qwerty key layout--so why do we still have it?  If you wanted a single
international keyboard you would have to fight not only tradition but
nationalistic prejudices on all sides.
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