[A12n-Collab] FW: Draft for a complementary international keyboard layout (ISO/IEC 9995-3)

["Don Osborn" <dzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all, Karl posted this on Unicode and Unicode's Africa list. I thought it 
might be of interest to some here also. Among oter things it provides some 
background to his previous request for info. 

For more on the ISO/IEC 9995 standards, see 
http://www.panafril10n.org/PanAfrLoc/ISO-9995 (which has various links).

Don

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From: africa-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:africa-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
Karl Pentzlin
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Subject: [africa] [OT] Draft for a complementary international keyboard layout 
(ISO/IEC 9995-3)

As a member of DIN NA 043-01-35-01 GAK, a German group
related to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 35/WG 1, I am concerned with the
ISO/IEC 9995 standard, Keyboard layouts for text and office systems.

I have compiled an early draft for a possible new version of
ISO/IEC 9995-3 (Keyboard layouts for text and office systems – Part 3:
Complementary layouts of the alphanumeric zone of the alphanumeric
section).
This work may eventually become an official German position.

This draft (which is still "work in progress") is found at:
http://www.europatastatur.de/material/ISO-IEC-9995-3-alternative-draft-3.pdf

All comments are welcome.

One of the goals of the work is to enable the input of the characters
of all current languages which use the Latin script.
Thus, references to characters missing in the draft are appreciated
especially.

- Karl Pentzlin