Heyhey! Sebastian Higgins <bct...@outlook.com> wrote: > A few things: > > 1. Cangjie is still widely used in places that uses traditional > Chinese characters. You would still be required to be good at it if > you apply for text-heavy office jobs in these places.
Ah, I didn't know that! I also don't know anyone who does office work in a place where traditional Chinese characters are used though ... > 2. Radical-based/shape-based methods were extremely popular when > the prediction technology wasn't as good (which means Pinyin was > significantly slower). It wasn't until late 2000s to early 2010s > before this situation has changed. At least in Japan I have never met anyone using a radical-based/shape-based input method. I have not even met anyone using direct Kana input, only through romaji. That said, may be an earlier generation used it more commonly ... > 3. Pinyin without prediction is slow because of what we called the > 重码 (lit. "overlap of encoding") problem. For Pinyin the encoding > overlaps because many characters may have the same Pinyin; the purpose > of all shape-based method is to reduce the overlap problem and thus > increase the input speed. Yeah, it's due to the high homophones count. Only the tones differ and these are not supported in pinyin input methods (as far as I know ...) > 4. ctrans uses cangjie because (1) implementing shape-based methods > was much, much more simpler than phonetic-based methods because most > (if not all) of the job is table lookup; (2) if we were to use the > same UI (or lack thereof) as ktrans the overlap-of-encoding problem > of Pinyin would very probably drive you nuts when using it; (3) it is > the input method the author uses, however I do admit using Cangjie for > simplified Chinese input is kinda peculiar. > > Source: me who is a native Chinese speaker and have learned Wubi > (a shape-based method for simplified Chinese) in primary school. Thanks for the insights. I appreciate it! Cheers, Silvan ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tba6835d445e07919-M977f609261cd764b55ad5dbf Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
