Chinese is the only major language with nothing like an alphabet. Unlike Thai or Japanese, it doesn’t even use consonant-vowel sequences written as a unit – alphasyllabaries – but consists of many and varied characters.
The fact that they DO have a working typewriter is impressive!!!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23531441-000-chinas-struggle-to-overcome-technological-imperialism/
Could u imagine all the typos I could make with that :)
ReplyDeleteha ha ha ha
ReplyDeleteThere was one system that worked by compositing strokes. I cant say how effective it was ... which is the one shown in your image d'oh.
ReplyDeleteAlso see priceonomics.com - How Autocomplete Was Built into Chinese Typewriters
Stephen Gunnell but they never made one for Australian langauages :)
ReplyDeleteAymii keegan Do they even have unicode font numbers?
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