NDLI: Integrating ordinary type and many languages with the APL alphabet and keyboard

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Berry, Paul
Abstract	To enjoy the advantages of APL, for too many years the APL user has had to forego “ordinary” characters and keyboards. This has been a major inconvenience to English-speaking North Americans, who have had to adjust to an unconventional keyboard and a character set without lower case, and even worse for Europeans, who found their national keyboards ignored and their national characters unrecognized.With improvements in technology, a change of orientation is possible. Where formerly APL was conceived as a closed system, independent of everybody else's typography, now it is possible to integrate APL with each nation's standard keyboard. This paper proposes a return to conventional lowercase and caps for APL alphabetics, keyboards that offer APL characters without disturbing conventional layouts, and a major expansion of the APL character set to embrace the characters of a world-wide set of languages.
Starting Page	68
Ending Page	76
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01636006
DOI	10.1145/255315.255342
Journal	ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad (APLQ)
Volume Number	15
Issue Number	4
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1988-12-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Integrating ordinary type and many languages with the APL alphabet and keyboard