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From: curtc@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curtis Charles)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.japan,comp.graphics,comp.editors,comp.text,misc.misc,comp.fonts,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Chinese character input scheme -- call for references
Message-ID: <6464@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 88 17:45:46 GMT
References: <45616@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Reply-To: curtc@pogo.GPID.TEK.COM (Curtis Charles)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville,  OR.
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In article <789@wasatch.UUCP>, thomson@wasatch.UUCP (Rich Thomson) writes...
>The user interface for input of the character should use the stroke
>information (encoded on a key, for instance) in combination with the order
>of the strokes to uniquely identify a given Chinese character, or perhaps

Several years ago I saw a prototype for a keyboard well suited to
Chinese.  (I know very little about Chinese, so take this with a grain
of salt...)   The keyboard was flat, and lacked the tactile feeling
we've come to enjoy, and was much like a membrain keyboard.  The reason
that it was flat was that the glyphs were projected from behind onto
the keyboard.  Apparently, the Chinese alphabet can be thought of as
tree structured, so getting a character (glyph?) on the screen became a
process of menu selection.  Several thousand characters were programmed
in, and it took 3 to 5 (?) "menu picks" to get to a glyph on the screen.

Thought about a graphic tablet with recognition software?  (Probably
tougher than recognition for English...)
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