Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
Cangjie (spelled with an e at the end) is used in HongkongKaixo!
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 10:36:06AM +0800, Wu Yongwei wrote:
There are other kinds of input methods, of course. E.g. they may use shapes. In Cangji, `o' represents the ä shape, and `oo' represents ä. (You need to have a Chinese-capable font to know what I mean).
Or you can go to
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~wicentow/wubixing.html
(I don't know if wubi is the same as cangji, but it seems to be the
same basic ideas; the above page is very insightful to understand
how shape-bassed chinese input works)
(traditional characters). Wubi is used in the mainland
(simplified characters). They are different systems but both are based on the
forms of characters so have some similiarities.
Wubi allows you to type all characters in the character set with a maximum of five keyboard characters with no ambiguity. It is THE system to use in the Mainland if you are a serious typist of Chinese. I have seen newspaper reports of typing competitions where the top typists type around 100 characters per minute. It has a steep learning curve so amateurs like me usually use a pinyin input method. There are lots of other input methods. The scim project on freedesktop.org has quite few if you want to try some.
Greg
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