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[Sean M. Burke]

At 06:33 AM 2004-11-18, MiaKalish at LFP wrote:
>To return to issues with the ubiquitous QWERTY: it is hard to redefine the
>non-letter keys, because they have special codings that are signals to
>different places in the software. So it is not a good technical idea to
>begin to redefine characters that could cause word processors, email, and
>web processing to go hoouey, because that really defeats the purpose.

I've used a Dvorak layout for years, which remaps lots of nonletter
keys.  It has never been a problem.  That's the whole point of the keyboard
layout abstraction layer in every OS.

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Sean M. Burke    http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/