Unicode LDML Keyboard Enhancements

keyboardThe Unicode CLDR Technical Committee is planning to enhance the
Unicode LDML keyboard specifications. The goal is to be able to
represent all the keyboard features necessary to support keyboard
layouts from all major providers, allowing the CLDR repository of
keyboard layouts to support not only languages in widespread use, but
also digitally disadvantaged languages. As a part of this work,
keyboards add support for more complex scripts, add capabilities for
virtual keyboards (especially mobile phones), incorporate features
needed on specific platforms, and provide better layouts overall.
Keyboards would also be able to import files, reducing maintenance by
allowing common features to be shared. For complex scripts, the
transform elements are made more powerful, and reorder and backspace
transforms are added.

The plan is to incorporate the changes specified in the PRI #367
background document
<http://www.unicode.org/review/pri367/pri367-Unicode-LDML-Keyboard-Enhancements.pdf>
into CLDR v33 (ca. March 2018), and to work thereafter to improve the
tooling for the new specification, and streamline the process for
submitting new keyboards into CLDR.

The committee is soliciting feedback on the proposal so that it can make
any necessary improvements. The closing date for providing feedback
<http://unicode.org/cldr/trac/newticket> is February 1, 2018.

Please see the PRI #367 page <http://www.unicode.org/review/pri367/> for
complete details.

/Over 130,000 characters are available for adoption
<http://unicode.org/consortium/adopt-a-character.html>, to help the
Unicode Consortium’s work on digitally disadvantaged languages./

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http://blog.unicode.org/2018/01/unicode-ldml-keyboard-enhancements.html

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