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On a tangent here but curious, if you know: what's the closest input method you can get to flick for Chinese? I realize the languages are quite different (might

by natch 8y ago

On a tangent here but curious, if you know: what's the closest input method you can get to flick for Chinese? I realize the languages are quite different (might be botching this, but my fuzzy understanding for Japanese is it has kanji+katakana+kana+romaji, where Chinese has only hanzi + pinyin|zhuyin/etc.) Do you think flick is compatible with Chinese?

emodendroket 8y ago
They don't have that. They do have handwriting recognition.
- natch 8y ago
  Well the question was what do they have that comes closest. They do have a lot more than just pinyin and handwriting. If you don't know, it's fine to just say that, or stay away from the discussion, especially when you seem to be answering with such certainty on something where you didn't read the question.
  - emodendroket 8y ago
    They have nothing that resembles the tenkey input because they have nothing that resembles kana, unless you want to count bopomofo. If you want to make some correction, rather than just condescending to me, feel free.
    - natch 8y ago
      Sorry I just find statements of the form “nothing exists” a bit irksome especially when the person talking doesn’t know what exists as can be seen by looking at the matter at hand. Chinese has plenty of ten key input systems, some alive, some dead, since the mid 1990s at least for phones and possibly before that for the keypads accompanying computers. It’s been a very fertile space for innovation and I’d be extremely surprised to meet anyone who has kept up with it, so forgive me for being skeptical of your claim of perfect knowledge of a negative. I was asking a different person who sounded like he knew something, and you answered. I did mention zhuyin which is commonly understood informal shorthand for zhuyinfuhao, the more formal word for bopomofo. There are component based systems as well that work with radicals, strokes, quadrants of the characters, and all kinds of zany stuff. That being said, I am not very familiar with Japanese and didn’t know about the the flick method.

by natch 8y ago

emodendroket 8y ago

They don't have that. They do have handwriting recognition.

natch 8y ago
Well the question was what do they have that comes closest. They do have a lot more than just pinyin and handwriting. If you don't know, it's fine to just say that, or stay away from the discussion, especially when you seem to be answering with such certainty on something where you didn't read the question.
- emodendroket 8y ago
  They have nothing that resembles the tenkey input because they have nothing that resembles kana, unless you want to count bopomofo. If you want to make some correction, rather than just condescending to me, feel free.
  - natch 8y ago
    Sorry I just find statements of the form “nothing exists” a bit irksome especially when the person talking doesn’t know what exists as can be seen by looking at the matter at hand. Chinese has plenty of ten key input systems, some alive, some dead, since the mid 1990s at least for phones and possibly before that for the keypads accompanying computers. It’s been a very fertile space for innovation and I’d be extremely surprised to meet anyone who has kept up with it, so forgive me for being skeptical of your claim of perfect knowledge of a negative. I was asking a different person who sounded like he knew something, and you answered. I did mention zhuyin which is commonly understood informal shorthand for zhuyinfuhao, the more formal word for bopomofo. There are component based systems as well that work with radicals, strokes, quadrants of the characters, and all kinds of zany stuff. That being said, I am not very familiar with Japanese and didn’t know about the the flick method.