12-26-2019, 10:32 AM
@murak, thanks for reply, I think there are two problems, one is what you say, personal preferences, but then they are not so personal, every language has its own characters, think of the Chinese who will buy the phone, build a keyboard in Chinese is practically impossible.
The other problem is that layouts should not be considered only a software issue, of course there is some way to completely remap a keyboard, but I think the keys have a physical identifier anyway (I think that also the button "fn" change phisically the address of the other button).
So deciding on a standard layout anyway (by standard I mean with all the ascii-english characters) is something to do the same, it is a good things to have all function keys in a standard place..
The "standard us layout with accents of your language" is something I really recommend to try to anyone who doesn't write in English, as well as the composition key. As far as my experience is concerned, this allows you to write those few different characters while staying on a standard layout (which in my opinion is better for programming or linux amministration).
Obviously if you have to write in Chinese the problem remains (I don't know about Arabic, for Cyrillic maybe there is a one-to-one correspondence with normal characters).
Stickers for keys may be an idea, but I once had a keyboard with stickers and when they come off they are a problem, I'd really prefer to write with an indelible marker on the buttons (but it is a personal preference so stickers is ok).
In addiction the bad notice is that we have less space of a psion:
psion5: 170 × 90 × 23
pphon: 160.5 x 76.6 x 9.2
The other problem is that layouts should not be considered only a software issue, of course there is some way to completely remap a keyboard, but I think the keys have a physical identifier anyway (I think that also the button "fn" change phisically the address of the other button).
So deciding on a standard layout anyway (by standard I mean with all the ascii-english characters) is something to do the same, it is a good things to have all function keys in a standard place..
The "standard us layout with accents of your language" is something I really recommend to try to anyone who doesn't write in English, as well as the composition key. As far as my experience is concerned, this allows you to write those few different characters while staying on a standard layout (which in my opinion is better for programming or linux amministration).
Obviously if you have to write in Chinese the problem remains (I don't know about Arabic, for Cyrillic maybe there is a one-to-one correspondence with normal characters).
Stickers for keys may be an idea, but I once had a keyboard with stickers and when they come off they are a problem, I'd really prefer to write with an indelible marker on the buttons (but it is a personal preference so stickers is ok).
In addiction the bad notice is that we have less space of a psion:
psion5: 170 × 90 × 23
pphon: 160.5 x 76.6 x 9.2
