There you go trying to ruin are fun again! And I was just getting ready for the small grapefruit jokes to start flying

Unless you consider trivial URL spoofing to be a problem.

~J

I'd buy one just because of that. Oh the hilarity.

That would not solve the problem at all.

It would just move it. URLs would then contain characters witch the vast majority of computer users in the western world would not know how to type. Last time I checked you have to install a non default windows option to be able to use some of those characters and even then they require strange key combinations to achieve. I had enough trouble when I had to deal with some of the European characters, adding Asian characters would effectively prevent many people from visiting the sites.

Edward

Sure. And while we're at it, we'll be installing keyboards the size and general shape of my Durango on everybody's desktop, so that they can type every possible character.


While I, and possibly you, might like the idea of a computer interface that you mount, climb into, or otherwise engage with your person, as opposed to merely your fingers, the vast majority would find such contrivances to be incredibly, ridiculously stupid.


That said, playing Half-Life 2 in such a rig would rock.

Most computer-users in our sphere, IE: the English-writing or other languages which use our alphabet-writing world, do not and will not have a need to type such characters. The fact that they do not come pre-installed is related to the reason my Durango does not have a Hemi engine.

In computers, it's about time and resources and resources. The first two referr to the programming time and resources it takes to ensure that such things as estoeric Asian charactersets function properly on our computers in any other place that ASCII text would function, which includes all third-party word-processing programs and browsers and so forth and so on, and the third is the fact that the computer will then be required to keep a <b>VASTLY</b> larger character set in memory.

The Unicode font, for example, contains FFFC characters. That's 65,532 characters.
It has to keep this set in active memory, IE RAM, at all times.

Add in the complete range of Asian characters? Watch that number exlpode through the millions.

(The reason my Durango dosen't have a Hemi, of course, is also resources. IE: I don't have the resources for that option. I have a Magnum V8, though. ^_^)

And, as I said. What's the point of giving someone something he's never going to use? Can YOU speak and write in ANY of those Asian languages? ALL of them?!

If not, why the HELL would you need default access to their character sets, especially when typing one from the keyboard was an insanely complicated process of memorizing alt+ combinations that were about nine keystrokes long? PER CHARACTER you need to type? Or worse, searching through the character map?

Or, as I said, strapping yourself into an enormous keyboard the size and shape of my Durango. That periphrial ALONE would probably cost as much if not moreso than the computer itself. Hell, you'd build the computer INTO it's control interface.

Actually, that's not a bad idea, but not to have so many keys surrounding me that I look like Mission Control..... No. I want to be surrounded by joysticks and large control surfaces that make manipulating my video games easier. But that's a story for another time. ^_^

They stole my website URL.

No, you just need a DNI or programmable interface so that you can either send the command "m with 5 squiggles" or scroll through 37 complete keyboard layouts looking for the one letter you need.

Just imagine how much worse it will get than "www.Micròsôft.com"

Right now I have roughly (47*(1 (standard layout) + 1 (shift) + 1 (option) + 1 (option-shift)) + (about 10*4 dead keys, minus 8 for ones counted already) + 1 + 2) characters available to me with at most four keystrokes (option-key plus shift-key). That's 223. Add one additional modifier key and you increase that to 411, even without effective use of additional dead keys. All it takes is a space cadet keyboard and your path is wide open.

~J

I love that site

You had me there.