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I'd imagine that the fact that the vast majority of the rest of the world uses QWERTY makes it quite useful for the Japanese and Chinese to also use QWERTY desp
by addicted 9y ago
I'd imagine that the fact that the vast majority of the rest of the world uses QWERTY makes it quite useful for the Japanese and Chinese to also use QWERTY despite the minor loss in optimal typing layout.
- Laforet 9y agoThe kinds of keyboard you will find in Japan are all heavily localised with different mapping for symbols and a number of context switching keys squeezed in at the expense of the space bar[0]. This is usually not a problem for typing Japanese because words are not delimited by whitespace, however it can be awkward to type English on them especially if you have hands larger than the average Japanese office worker. China, on the other hand, uses US layout qwerty keyboards almost exclusively. [0]:https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Te5RdGMTL._SL1500_.jpg https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81Te5RdGMTL...
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoChina never developed specialized keyboards since they were still not using many computers in the 70s/80s when this was a trend. Japan and Taiwan both developed pretty specialized keyboards for Japanese and Chinese, respectively, though this turned out to be not as productive as just using slightly modified QWERTY (which is why china didn't go down this same route in the 90s).
- TorKlingberg 9y agoIt's mostly that you want to use the same keyboard to type English or other latin words occasionally.