Re: Wogb3 j3k3: Pre-Unicode substitutions for extended characters live on

I have the rare good fortune to see John Cowan on a near-daily basis
(except this month, with all the Jewish Holidays); I'll forward your
message on.

~mark

On 10/16/2016 01:08 PM, Marcel Schneider wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2016 09:48:00 -0700, Doug Ewell wrote:
> […]
>> You mentioned mobile devices, but also mentioned ISO/IEC 9995 and 14755,
>> which seem to deal primarily with computer keyboards.
>>
>> On Windows, John Cowan's Moby Latin keyboard [1] allows the input of
>> more than 800 non-ASCII characters, including the two mentioned in your
>> post (ɛ and ɔ):
>>
>> AltGr+p, o 0254 LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN O
>> AltGr+p, e 025B LATIN SMALL LETTER OPEN E
>>
>> Moby Latin is a strict superset of the standard U.S. English keyboard;
>> that is, none of the standard keystrokes were redefined, unlike
>> keyboards such as United States-International which tend to redefine
>> keys for ASCII characters that look like diacritical marks, making
>> adoption difficult. There are also versions of Moby based on the
>> standard U.K. keyboard.
>>
>> [1]
>> http://recycledknowledge.blogspot.com/2013/09/us-moby-latin-keyboard-for-windows.html
>>
> U.S. Moby Latin and Whacking Latin keyboard driver packages
> are not available any more. What happened?
> Neither can John Cowanʼs home pae be accessed:
> http://home.ccil.org/%7Ecowan/XML/
> Though the Chester County Interlink host is not down.
> Still the ReadMe can be accessed, from another domain:
> http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/gaidhlig/sracan/Whacking/MobyLatinKeyboard.html
Received on Sun Oct 16 2016 - 13:26:43 CDT