on 23/4/02 10:31 pm, The Fool at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'll see your newsbytes and raise you a C|net from yesterday: > http://news.com.com/2100-1023-888246.html > " > But until more Chinese households have telephone lines and can see more > online content they like, penetration rates could remain low, according > to the research firm. > " > > " > Only 35.6 percent of homes in China have telephones, and few Internet > sites have developed good Chinese content, he said. > "Content in English or in Japanese is much more common. If you surf the > Net (in Chinese), you see a lot of the same stuff over and over again," > Yu said. "There's a feeling that there's nothing fresh out there." > " >
I don't think there is enough information to decide how this will turn out. We'll just have to wait three or four years and see. I have made a reminder in my calendar... > Did ya see that bit where most of the content is english/japaneese? > > And it doesn't address the issue, of keyboards which was my primary > point. When you have to Know a minumum of 3000 characters to be > considered literate, the complexity of creating content with a keyboard > is an exceptionally difficult process for the average person. With latin > based languages, it is far less difficult for the average person to > create content, like a letter. > The localized versions of Mac OS, Windows etc provide the means to enter the local language by keyboard. It seems more likely someone would learn how to use that facility for their native language (difficult though that might be) than learn a foreign language instead (which would be even harder). And what about a Chinese version of something like IBM _Via Voice_? -- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wtgab.demon.co.uk
