Notes from my terminal

East-Asian Electronic Text Input Methods

This page is rather nice. It lists and demonstrates how Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text input on computers work. Should be especially interesting for those who never used an Asian word processor and wonder how people in the Far East actually input their plethora of strange looking characters on a standard QWERTY keyboard. The animations are superb and the descriptions are okay, although they call the Korean 2-beol-sik ("two set type") an "input method" while it's actually a keyboard layout. Posted by jens at August 21, 2003 11:03 AM | TrackBack