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Are there really computer-literate Mandarin speakers in China who don't know pinyin? How do they input text? The only serious non-pinyin IMEs I'm aware of are
by khuey 13y ago
Are there really computer-literate Mandarin speakers in China who don't know pinyin? How do they input text? The only serious non-pinyin IMEs I'm aware of are the bopomofo ones for traditional characters in Taiwan.
- yzhou 13y agomany older people like my dad, don't know pinyin well. he doesn't input texts, but he browses web sites. He uses a default home pages full of links to start exploring the web.
- gurkendoktor 13y agoI've regularly seen people use the handwriting IME in China. They were probably only post-PC computer literate, though :)
- vorg 13y agoMandarin speakers in some parts of China speak their Mandarin differently, so can't remember the exact pinyin. E.g. around Wuhan people can't remember whether a word ends with -ang or -an, similarly with -eng and -en. As a foreigner, I can't remember nu and nv, similarly lu and lv. Beijingers have trouble with -r endings.