Particularly, how do you match the tens of thousands of Chinese characters to the 26 letters on a QWERTY keyboard? The first attempt was vastly different from the keyboard apps today, and centered ...

Chinese characters, or hanzi ... Android devices can use the Swype keyboard ...

Type “a” on a QWERTY keyboard hooked up to a Chinese computer, on the other hand, and the computer is off anticipating the next characters. Typing in Chinese requires mediation from a layer of ...

the act of getting Chinese characters to appear on a computer monitor or other digital device using a QWERTY keyboard or trackpad. Stills taken from a 2013 Chinese input competition screencast.

And on top of it all, Chinese characters are the oldest continuously-used system of writing in the world. So how the hell does it work on a modern computer keyboard? We checked out this Slate ...

Chinese writing incorporates thousands of unique characters that could never fit ... because Apple automatically sandboxes the platform's keyboard apps. Allowing iPhone keyboard apps to access ...

The iPad Language setting displays Chinese for all icon symbols and menu items on the ... If you only want to input Chinese using the on-screen keyboard, but do not want all of the icons and ...

This broke individual characters into their constituent parts ... Then, the IME transformed the Chinese keyboard into a 'smart' peripheral, much more sophisticated at taking instructions from ...