Re: Input method or help feature needed

[tomas]

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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 05:41:19PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> address@hidden writes:

> > As an additional thought: this won't work for non-English speakers,
> > right?
> 
> I'd think of it like a programming language -- it's nominally "English",
> but of a rather limited and regular sort.

Kind of. Still, a non-English speaker is less likely to come up with a
construct like "DOTLESS", to keep to the example.

> Can you think of any mechanism that both completely avoids naming and
> covers the entire unicode space though?

You are completely right, that's hard (although this thread is producing
surprising ideas already). My reply wasn't meant as an objection to the
method proposed. Rather as a reminder: we're not done with that, and we
might need a whole bunch of interfaces, complementing each other.

Regards
- -- tomás
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