The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards
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The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards
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#2See also "How the quest to type Chinese on a QWERTY keyboard created autocomplete": https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/05/27/1092876/type-chi...
(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40548356, but no comments there)
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#3Radiolab also did an excellent podcast on the topic
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#4No mention of the competing MingKwai typewriter of Lin Yutang, the famous popularizer of Chinese culture to the west. Apparently his prototype suffered an embarrassing failure at an investor meeting and couldn’t get off the ground. But the idea was good. Article here: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-uncanny-keyboard/
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#5> like Chairman Mao Zedong, who seemed to equate Chinese modernization with the Romanization of Chinese script
One of Mao's better ideas
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#7> like Chairman Mao Zedong, who seemed to equate Chinese modernization with the Romanization of Chinese script One of Mao's better ideas
Thank God it didn’t happen.
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#9Radiolab also did an excellent podcast on the topic https://radiolab.org/podcast/wubi-effect
That one was so good. I was completely ignorant of the topic before that episode aired.
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#10“Safari can’t open the page because the address is invalid”
How strange.
More on topic: Considering how inefficient Chinese characters are in general (but especially evident in computing) as one of the few languages where characters have no direct relation to phonetics, I wonder why there hasn’t been an effort to modernize it similar to Hiragana in Japan. Well, considering how Chinese is basically Kanji, why not just adopt Japanese?