That kind of post brings philosophical questions as well. Do we need to support 7000 languages? Should we? If we take a vision of United Earth a-la Star Trek, should there be support for any script other than “United Earth script?” Is in reasonable or unreasonable to expect countries/languages/people to upgrade their script to more simple/efficient things? Russian alphabet has had some number of simplifications and reductions throughout the history, can the same happen to Mandarin? Bunch of my Indian friends are more comfortable typing Hindi using Latin script rather than the native one. Not because of technical hurdles but because it’s cumbersome to apply all correct modifiers.
In other words, should computers adapt to people here or should people adapt to computers or some kind of mutual movement towards each other with finding a middle ground?
There’s a phonetic alphabet that contains all sounds from all languages (I don’t remember the name). It would be interesting to exercise a thought of a keyboard built to accommodate it and that alphabet serving as universal alphabet for the planet.
In other words, should computers adapt to people here or should people adapt to computers or some kind of mutual movement towards each other with finding a middle ground?
There’s a phonetic alphabet that contains all sounds from all languages (I don’t remember the name). It would be interesting to exercise a thought of a keyboard built to accommodate it and that alphabet serving as universal alphabet for the planet.
Edit: typos