On Wed, 16 May 2007 15:46:10 +0200, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric Brunel: > >> Funny you talk about Japanese, a language I'm a bit familiar with and >> for which I actually know some input methods. The thing is, these only >> work if you know the transcription to the latin alphabet of the word >> you want to type, which closely match its pronunciation. So if you >> don't know that 売り場 is pronounced "uriba" for example, you have >> absolutely no way of entering the word. Even if you could choose among >> a list of characters, are you aware that there are almost 2000 "basic" >> Chinese characters used in the Japanese language? And if I'm not >> mistaken, there are several tens of thousands characters in the Chinese >> language itself. This makes typing them virtually impossible if you >> don't know the language and/or have the correct keyboard. > > It is nowhere near that difficult. There are several ways to > approach this, including breaking up each character into pieces and > looking through the subset of characters that use that piece (the > Radical part of the IME). For 売, you can start with the cross with a > short bottom stroke (at the top of the character) 士, for 場 look for > the crossy thing on the left 土. The middle character is simple looking > so probably not Chinese so found it in Hiragana. Another approach is to > count strokes (Strokes section of the IME) and look through the > characters with that number of strokes. Within lists, the characters are > ordered from simplest to more complex so you can get a feel for where to > look. Have you ever tried to enter anything more than 2 or 3 characters like that? I did. It just takes ages. Come on: are you really serious about entering *identifiers* in a *program* this way? -- python -c "print ''.join([chr(154 - ord(c)) for c in 'U(17zX(%,5.zmz5(17l8(%,5.Z*(93-965$l7+-'])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
