I found a unicode table:   when I got down to the main section of CJK
characters it became pretty obvious that they had been sorted as they would
be in a Kanji dictionary.  So if the traditional key root radicle was, Eg.
'tree' or 'water' all those kanji were grouped together in ascending order
of extra brush strokes.  I would expect many CJK searches to follow that
order.

If search engines have been developed using PinYin as the search order for
Chinese, or Kokugo for Japanese:  you will have to find one.  Linux
developer lists concerning the relevant portions of the OS may have useful
details?  When I look at Mac OS language preference settings;  sorting;
 there are two choices:  unihan and Japanese.  I can guess which is which
but it will need testing...

Mac OS Chinese sort orders available are listed as:  Pinyin;  Simplified
Chinese;  Stroke;  Traditional Chinese.  Deep in the bowels of Mac Dev Doc
there is certainly documentation — somewhere.  I suspect the same is true
for some Linux distros;  all of them, possibly?

The Japanese reading and writing population must be 130,000,000 + some in
Brazil.  Chinese readers and writers somewhere between a billion or
two?  *There
will be no way to influence their computing practices:*  so we *must make
the best use* of what may be available.  What you want does seem to be
available, Murray.   It is a question of seeing how to implement it.

George



On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Murray James Morrison <
[email protected]> wrote:

> (I apologize if this is a double-post, I had problems sending my original
> message.)
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> Been playing with Mnemosyne 2 Beta on my Windows 7 machine. I like it,
> congratulations! I had some thoughts about the beta. I'm not a programmer,
> so a lot of these are cosmetic, user-experience type suggestions.....
>
>
> -The Chinese language sort is worthless on my machine. As I've mentioned
> before, Chinese characters should be sorted alphabetically by pinyin, not
> character radical. Right now it's actually worse than Mnemosyne 1.x, since
> the "Browse cards" dialog box no longer sorts this way (it did before).
> Ditto for the "deactivate cards" window. Can anyone else learning Chinese
> with Mnemosyne verify this? .....
>
>
> Cheers,
> -murrayjames
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> http://users.ugent.be/~pbienst/pub/mnemosyne-beta-2-setup.exe
>>
>>

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