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Twenty-one years after the emergence of "Five Strokes" character input method, another original invention by Prof. Wang Yongmin was formally announced in Beijing on June 26. This new set of numeral ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

When installing Windows 11/10 for the first time, or on the first startup after installation, the OS offers a few Setup options. This includes different settings and of them is adding a language, for ...

We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or at least many of us think we do. Many cultures do not use a writing system ...

Heads and shoulders better than anything that Windows or Linux have ever come up with. It all has to do with the magic trackpad and the sheer size of it. For Japanese, hand-scrawling is always going ...

Google on Wednesday made itself more of a local player by launching its own Chinese input method editor (IME) to offer writers an alternative to writing Chinese characters. Within hours of its release ...

Mastering the various Chinese input methods will help local students stay 'literate' in the computer age, according to language experts. Today, one new Chinese input method is being created every ...