Re: intrinsic advantage of Latin alphabet over bopomofo (for Chinese)??

On Mar 4, 5:53 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:
Herman Rubin wrote:
I do not know if much larger alphabets than the Latin one
have been successfully placed on typewriters.

As I am supposed to learn Amharic one of these days, I wonder how a
typewriter would handle fidal, i.e. the Amharic syllabary.

Olympia manufactured an Amharic typewriter; its keyboard layout is
included in the catalog reproduced in the back of Beeching's *Century
of the Typewriter*. Have you not noticed that there is a considerable
amount of regularity in the composition of the characters?

Actually,
the whole thing - I mean fidal - looks terribly crude and unreadable
to me.

Haven't you learned your lesson _yet_ about broadcasting bigoted
statements here?

Has it been directly computerized from manuscript characters,
or something?

Did you bother to investigate? Not long ago I downloaded a completely
serviceable Amharic font and IME, from a website gathering links to
all sorts of Unicode-related fonts. Type C and then V, and the correct
letter appears.

http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/index.html

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