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From: stafford@ti-csl.CSNET (Ron Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Chinese character input scheme -- call for references
Message-ID: <66384@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: 27 Dec 88 14:53:52 GMT
References: <789@wasatch.UUCP> <130001@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: stafford@tilde.UUCP (Ron Stafford)
Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
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>HP has offered full KANJI support for quite a number of years.  KANJI is used
>in Japan and consist of approximately 30,000-50,000 ideograms.   Rather than
>using a keystroke approach as given above (highly impractical), a very special
>terminal is employed.  This terminal allows any of the 30K-50K ideograms to 
>be entered with a single keystroke.  Note that each character in the KANJI 
>languague is represented by 16-bits. 

WOW!!!   HP has a keyboard with 50,000 keys.

	How long does it take to learn touch typing on this monster?