KEYBOARD NERDS! I have come up with the ultimate keyboard design!
Eight keys and one switch, which the user can order as a lit rocker switch or one of those safety-covered "enable" toggles.
In default mode, each "keypress" is a chord of the first seven keys which encode the ASCII value of the character you wish to type, with the 8th key being a dedicated "ENTER" key.
In "Professional" mode, enabled via the hardware switch, one to four intermediary "keypresses" define each byte of the UTF-8 character. Of course, the vast majority of characters one types will require only one chorded keypress, but more can be entered as needed to type any UTF-8 encodable character. Since the first byte also encodes how many bytes are required, there's no ambiguity.
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