Thread:User talk:Siebrand/A Suggestion

I'm mostly active on English Wiktionary, where I asked if anyone was interested in creating an alternative input method for polytonic Greek using Beta Code. It was suggested that I mention this to someone working on Milkshake. All of the information about communication here seems to be geared toward complaints and problem-solving, with no mention of how to make a simple suggestion- so I hope I'm doing this right.

Basically, Beta Code is an encoding system for polytonic Greek that has the advantage of not requiring any characters beyond the basic ASCII set that everyone already has on their keyboards. I think a great input method could me created based on the user typing Beta Code into some interface element, with polytonic Greek characters as the output. The only even slightly tricky part is that Beta Code and wikitext use many of the same characters, so the Beta code input would have to be kept separate. Although Beta Code itself (as far as I know) only covers the Greek polytonic script (and to a lesser extent Hebrew and Coptic), a similar approach could be used for most alphabetic scripts and syllabaries.

As for permission to use it, Beta Code seems to be very widely used in multiple independent projects, such as the Perseus Digital Library, so it must be relatively unrestricted.

At any rate, I just wanted to bring the idea to someone's attention, in case it might be helpful. I have no idea how- or if- it might fit with what's already being developed.

Thanks for your time.