Zhenqing Li nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/16 21:59:
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> Alain wrote:
>> Zhenqing Li nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/16 14:22:
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>>> Darren New wrote:
>>>> Christian Froeschlin wrote:
>>>>> The hurdle is bigger, but can't be avoided completely. Localizing
>>>>> language keywords is not a good idea, and you wouldn't dream of
>>>>> doing it with languages like C or Java.
>>>> I have a Chinese version of the K&R C book. The keywords are english,
>>>> but all the variable names and such are chinese.
>>>>
>>>> Plus, from what I've seen, chinese computer keyboards tend to be latin
>>>> keyboards with software to translate phonetically, in essence. I imagine
>>>> there are some actual chinese keyboards out there, but I never saw one
>>>> when I was in china, and the chinese people I know who don't speak any
>>>> english use latin keyboards.
>>>>
>>> Hmmm... In my point of view, there is no Chinese keyboard in the world.
>>> Because Chinese contains 5,000 or even more characters, how can you make
>>> that keyboard... Maybe we need to build another keyboard Great Wall to
>>> do that~ :D
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>>> Zhenqing LI
>> There are some. They mostly use various characters construction
>> techniques. You usualy start with a base character, then you add 0 to
>> several sub-parts untill you get the complete character.
>> Someone who know how to use one sort is usualy completely lost in frons
>> of most others, as the imput technique, as well as the layout, can
>> change a lot. Also, they don't all have the same number of keys.
>>
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> Awesome.... I also saw one picture in Wikipedia to show one kind of
> Chinese Keyboard.... It's like the old publishing method in China I think...
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> Zhenqing LI
The first where probably direct ports of typographical "input devices", with no 
effort at standardisation. I think that I heard of some keyboards with a key 
count nearing the thousand... Those must have been prety large to downright huge!

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Alain
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