keyboard arrangements

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

>Dear colleagues:
>
>Brief followup to discussion of fonts & 
>keyboards.  I recently submitted a correction of 
>a bizarre
>misspelling on "Internet Movie Database."  At 
>the time, I could not figure out how such a 
>far-fetched
>misspelling could have occurred.  But maybe that 
>data had been authored by someone familiar with 
>the
>"Soviet-style" arrangement of  Cyrillic keys, and who was typing "blind"?
>
>It was supposed to be a character's name in a 
>film: "K. SAMOILOV" (or "KLIM SAMOILOV").
>
>But on IMDB it was spelled  "K SHRDLU," believe it or not.
>
>Does the above misspelling make sense to you 
>experts who regularly work with the 
>"non-homophonic"
>arrangement of Cyrillic keys?
>

More likely a relative of Etaoin Shrdlu (look him up).

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Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo, PO Box 1003 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, Norway
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