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Originally Posted by JinnKai
I think developing an input device would also be difficult; what option would be available for people who utilize their machines for productive work in their native language (writing documents in English in Microsoft Word), for example, who also want to communicate using this "international" Internet language?
What is available to them? Some sort of complicated keyboard switching? For those who can't touch type, the labeling of the keys is essential.
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I think what Lak is getting at is that parsing will be handled in a software layer, meaning that input can be basically whatever the user prefers. I type a word in English, you type a word in Swahili, the parser takes either and renders it into the appropriate symbol. Thus, current hardware will be useable with no modifcation required, which is sensible, since software is massively more adaptable anyway.
The parsing, however, is still going to be a problem I think. Your language
has to be machine-readable, because it has to be machine-writable. Have you ever used
Babel Fish? Ever done any round-trip translations? Machines just are not currently able to effectively render languages. If you could actually design a program that translates properly from one language to another with no errors, you'd be the first.
The problem, as you've so rightly recognized, is largely idiomatic.