Re: Letter frequency in unicode (Was Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Free UCS outline font)

[Dr. U.B. P. <pav...@vi...>]

> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:24:45PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> The above data can be used to 
> 
> (a) Design keyboards based on the analysis of which syllables are more
>     frequent and which syllables often occur next to each other etc.
> (b) Publish simplified keyboards and fonts, which contain smaller,
> more
>     manageable, but incomplete subsets of the language/script. 
> 
> The above code is easily extensible to other Indian languages. All you
> need to do is copy and modify kannada.py to indicate the vowels,
> consonants and matras in your language.

People at Prajavani (a leading Kannada daily) have done the frequency 
analysis for Kannada letters looooooooong ago. They had even designed 
their Montype Kannada layout based on these data. Now all these have 
gone due to the advent of GoK (Govt of Karnataka) standard Kannada 
keyboard layout (also know as KGP (Kannada Ganaka Parishat) std).

I hope everyone remembers the story about QWERTY keyboard that we use 
for English. It was designed to make typing SLOW rather than FAST ;-)

Rgds,
Pavanaja
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Dr. U.B. Pavanaja
Editor, Vishva Kannada
World's first Internet magazine in Kannada
http://www.vishvakannada.com/

Note: I don't worry about pselling mixtakes