Post A8n7DWJrk541LG8sW8 by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #A8n7DWJrk541LG8sW8 by kzimmermann@fosstodon.org
2021-06-29T22:01:15Z
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How the hell did people type in CJK characters before the advent of advanced Input Methods in computers? Like, how did Chinese or Japanese typewriters work? Did they have like 1000s of keys on them?#showerthoughts Apparently, yes:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_typewriter
(DIR) Post #A8n7mrbKbpt9TuAGQa by thumb@fosstodon.org
2021-06-29T22:07:38Z
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@kzimmermann Related: https://www.fastcompany.com/90635203/ibm-chinese-typewriter-lois-lew
(DIR) Post #A8n7uk4cTrHGS3cXpY by cirno@fosstodon.org
2021-06-29T22:09:02Z
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@kzimmermann I was wondering the same, recently. Less about typewriting and more about writing digitally before the likes of UTF-8 and generally when space was limited.Actually, CJK is easy. How about Arabic, when the characters actually change shape based on what's written next to them.
(DIR) Post #A8nBsHo10ZpW1AwFZQ by thumb@fosstodon.org
2021-06-29T22:53:28Z
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@cirno @kzimmermann https://merveilles.town/@nasser/106495623045554987
(DIR) Post #A8nVWHMlxYK9MqynM8 by wzqtparor@mstdn.io
2021-06-30T02:33:35Z
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Common CJK encodings before Unicode:GB2312: 6,763 HanziBig-5: 13,053 HanziISO-2022-JP: 6,355 KanjiShift-JIS: 6,355 KanjiKS X 1001: 4,888 HanjaMany modern input methods are still confined to those ancient standards. It is difficult to input rarely used CJK characters, so common users just do not use them. :-( @cirno @kzimmermann
(DIR) Post #A8ncWOxwP7TecGN1Wq by roytam1@miniwa.moe
2021-06-30T03:52:04.407650Z
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@wzqtparor @cirno @kzimmermann you didn't count HKSCS(GCCS).