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> However to use LATIN, japanese, chinese, arabic, hebraian and other
> characters types simultaneously on the same keyboard isn't going to
> work well.

What you need for the multiple-languages problem is a dynamic keyboard. For
instance, you could use an LCD touch-screen for the keyboard & display the
currently-selected character set... this would also solve the problem of
switching between Qwerty, Dvorak, and some of the more exotic layouts that
have been proposed.

And for the problem of the large number of glyphs in oriental character sets,
I believe there are already systems that address this problem. They provide
a katakana keyboard, and after entering a word a selection of kanji characters
is displayed for the operator to select the correct one from. (I hope I have
the correct terms here).

Combining the two ideas, you could have the *keyboard* itself change to one
containing the possible kanji for a given word after entering each world.

I know there are UNIX sites in Japan. Are there any on this net?
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