Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread LdBeth
> In <288YQ7Y33V3RF.38NPGPX4H2CHU@homearch.localdomain> > "Silvan Jegen" wrote: SJ> andp...@foxmail.com wrote: >> On Friday, 22 July 2022, at 2:09 PM, Silvan Jegen wrote: >> > Ah, I didn't know that! I also don't know anyone who does office work >> > in a place where traditional

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread Silvan Jegen
andp...@foxmail.com wrote: > On Friday, 22 July 2022, at 2:09 PM, Silvan Jegen wrote: > > Ah, I didn't know that! I also don't know anyone who does office work > > in a place where traditional Chinese characters are used though ... > > They would use RIME, https://rime.im a free software widely >

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread andpuke
On Friday, 22 July 2022, at 2:09 PM, Silvan Jegen wrote: > Ah, I didn't know that! I also don't know anyone who does office work in a place where traditional Chinese characters are used though ... They would use RIME, https://rime.im a free software widely recognized among Chinese users who are

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread Jacob Moody
On 7/22/22 12:06, Sebastian Higgins wrote: > A few things: > > 1. Cangjie is still widely used in places that uses traditional Chinese > characters. You would still be required to be good at it if you apply for > text-heavy office jobs in these places. > 2. Radical-based/shape-based methods

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread andpuke
On Wednesday, 20 July 2022, at 11:15 PM, cigar562hfsp952fans wrote: > I've often wondered that. What input methods do Chinese speakers use? What do Chinese keyboards look like? How do they find/select the character they want? Are different sets of characters available on different computers, or

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread Silvan Jegen
Heyhey! Sebastian Higgins wrote: > A few things: > > 1. Cangjie is still widely used in places that uses traditional > Chinese characters. You would still be required to be good at it if > you apply for text-heavy office jobs in these places. Ah, I didn't know that! I also don't know anyone

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread Sebastian Higgins
A few things: 1. Cangjie is still widely used in places that uses traditional Chinese characters. You would still be required to be good at it if you apply for text-heavy office jobs in these places. 2. Radical-based/shape-based methods were extremely popular when the prediction technology

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread adr
Yep, Cangjie is one of those input methods based on shape I was talking about, more appropriate for traditional Chinese characters used in Taiwan, Hong-Kong, etc. South Korea still use kanji similar to traditional Chinese, but I don't know what input method they use. Note that in mainland China

Re: [9fans] Re: ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

2022-07-22 Thread Silvan Jegen
a...@sdf.org wrote: > > I stumbled onto an instructive video on youtube not that long ago. I'm > > sure there are a few you'll be able to search for. If I understand > > correctly, it's a combination of entering the phoneme by the nearest > > Latin letter, then select from a diminishing range of