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If only Unicode decomposed Chinese characters on a per basic stroke basis: it would be so much easier to have keyboards following that.
by anticensor 1y ago
If only Unicode decomposed Chinese characters on a per basic stroke basis: it would be so much easier to have keyboards following that.
- ezst 1y agoThis has nothing to do with Unicode and everything to do with input methods, of which there are a variety. Some methods are indeed shape-based like you suggest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_method#Shape-based https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_method#Shape-bas... By the looks of it, Pinyin (a phonetic one) won by a landslide, which I suspect this is the result of a long effort by the Chinese government to install Mandarin as the official language of China, above regional dialects (different regions would write similar characters but pronounce them differently, and defaulting to Pinyin has this "nice" effect of having people "think of how it would be pronounced in Mandarin first", even when the result are characters that would be read by a Cantonese speaker).