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Re:The Inuit agree on a common writing system by thaumasiotes on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:06PM (#21184044)
> somebody using a keyboard for one of the CJK languages only needs to press shift to type all the characters in Basic Latin because the physical layouts are the same

The keyboards you buy in China (the C in CJK) are the same ones you'd buy in the US. They don't have their own.

This makes sense, since character input is done in software; there is no way to map physical keys to the much much larger inventory of characters.

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Re:The Inuit agree on a common writing system by knolax on Monday October 07, 2019 @06:21PM (#21186613)
Yes Mainland China generally uses ANSI or ISO but Taiwanese keyboards usually have labels for bopomofo and Cangjie[0] while having the same physical layout as a US keyboard.

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_Taiwanese_K...

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