Re: why is Dutch the default language for note-entry?

[Hans Aberg]

On 16 Dec 2008, at 05:58, Mark Polesky wrote:

> English uses the fewest keystrokes.

Computer languages no more attempt to minimize the number of  
keystrokes, as code tends to be unreadable.

> For comparison,
> here's a measure from Chopin's Fantasie-impromptu:
>
> English:
>  r16 gs( a gs fss gs cs e ds cs ds cs bs cs e gs)

You might call for using Unicode:
 r16 g♯( a g♯ f♯♯ g♯ c♯ e d♯ c♯ d♯ c♯ b♯ c♯ e  
g♯)

You need a font, though, and perhaps a special key map, too.

  Hans