<div>For a german keyboard you need at least 26+10+3+35=74 signs - and what much concepts do not yet handle are capital letters, or a shift key.</div>
<div>If it should be really intuitive, you'd have to use special shapes for capital letters, because doing shift and typing the non-capital letter to do a capital letter isn't really intuitive (imho).<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/9/9, D. R. Newman <<a href="mailto:d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk">d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk</a>>:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Giles Jones wrote:<br><br>> Thing is there are 26 characters in the alphabet and 10 digits,<br>> that's a lot of shapes to remember.
<br><br>It depends on which alphabet you are using. Even latin1 has more than 36<br>characters, as you have to include all the accented combinations in<br>Portuguese, French and so on.<br><br>We really need an input technique to work with any phonetic alphabet
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