Chaletpol,

I know that Japanese characters take many pronunciations, far more than in
Chinese. Kana is sorted by pronunciation, right? How do computers generally
handle sorting by kanji, if there are so many readings? How does Mnemosyne
handle this?

In Chinese, sorting by pinyin (romanized pronunciation) is the norm. Folders
in Windows, songs and artist names in iTunes, etc.--all sorted by pinyin.
This is why it's frustrating to be unable to sort my Mnemosyne data in any
meaningful way (over 5000+ cards and 50+ categories). None of my other
computer software works like that.

--murrayjames

2011/8/24 ChaletPol <[email protected]>

> Unfortunately, George, that is not presently a mnemosyne-specific
> problem.  That is a general computing problem.  While it seems like
> Google is smart enough to guess what 漢字 you are looking for based
> solely on ひらがな, most computer programs are not capable of doing this
> as far as I know.  The 漢字 can have so many different pronunciations
> that programming something to cover all of them would be a massive
> undertaking.  I suspect that a similar effort, if not even more
> intensive, would be required to make searching for characters by
> radical possible within a given program.
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