tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post2314524850537462220..comments2024-03-25T15:02:25.695+11:00Comments on oz.Typewriter: Rainy Thai (and Burmese) Typewriter DayRobert Messengerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04366507489948676594noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-47458506519904260352015-04-08T08:26:11.783+10:002015-04-08T08:26:11.783+10:00It never ceases to amaze me what kind of languages...It never ceases to amaze me what kind of languages they could fit onto a manual machine...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-29483760957777368352015-04-08T06:37:40.476+10:002015-04-08T06:37:40.476+10:00Ooh, light green Oly 33, eh? That oughta look neat...Ooh, light green Oly 33, eh? That oughta look neat (:Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16774432656602082311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-52237299731756271262015-04-08T02:21:23.339+10:002015-04-08T02:21:23.339+10:00My Thai Olympia works the same way, with quite a f...My Thai Olympia works the same way, with quite a few dead keys. I lived in Thailand for five months in 1990 so I can tell you that vowels are added after, before, over, or under consonants. There are also tone marks, since it's a tonal language. So there are many occasions for dead keys.Richard Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16232053429935587826noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5248447883714712696.post-56077172889301006942015-04-07T23:45:30.609+10:002015-04-07T23:45:30.609+10:00Very interesting!
I don't know a word of tha...Very interesting! <br /><br />I don't know a word of thailandese, but those seem to be "dead" keys of the type you use to combine characters to create a different one. In Spanish we have one dead key - which as you've discovered, doesn't cause the carriage to advance - to add accents to vowels. So, in order to create an á, é, í, ó, ú, ý, you (usually) first press the dead accent key (') and then the letter to be accentuated. This is what causes the carriage to advance. Most likely these four keys contain parts of symbols that combine with others to form specific letters.Miguel Chávezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09411154570699775904noreply@blogger.com