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From: mh2f+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Mark Hahn)
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Subject: Re: the interface for the rest of us?
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Date: 3 May 91 03:52:15 GMT
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there may be a market for technophobes in this country,
but pens are practically a necessity for ideographic writing, like Japan.  
currently, the state of the art for typing kanji is to enter 
an English transcription, which is then converted into the Japanese 
syllabic alphabet (kana) and finally into Kanji (the latter 
is a many-many mapping.) not surprisingly, vast categories
of the software market in Japan are sparse, since there's no general
demand for such a clumsy system.

regards, mark