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At 12:50 PM 5/13/2004, you wrote:
> Entry and display.
CCJK Text entry means the user _must_ have the appropriate language system, either native or add-in like Twin Bridge.
Literate Chinese means knowing about 4,000 characters--you need about 3,000 just to read newspaper, and a scholar will know 8,000-10,000. Japanese requires about 2,000 Chinese characters (Kanji), plus hiragana, katakana, and romaji.
With that many characters, there is no Chinese keyboard. Rather, CCJK use an "Input Method Editor," or IME, which allows the user to enter a character with a few keystrokes. In Chinese alone, there are a half-dozen commonly-used schemes for entering characters, and the IME must support them.
So, it's impractical to write a routine in Director to allow the user to enter multibyte characters (Chinese , Chinese , Japanese, Korean). If you had the language knowledge, you could maybe write your own IME in a year or two, probably as an xtra.
In short, input on a system that doesn't support it is a Very Very Big Job. That probably means that you will need to test on the native language systems, plus systems with the add-in.
> Not sharing. But will need to interact with the user and the > user's computer.
How will the data need to interact with the user? Is it a matter of displaying info they have typed in, like name? That should be pretty straightforward. If you're trying to parse data, though look out. That's a real tough assignment.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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