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Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards by asdasdsddd on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:15PM (#40549531)
Almost all digital communication is written using pinyin, which today is almost all written communication
Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards by alexlur on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:22PM (#40549583)
This is an extremely mainland-centric view. Cangjie is the dominant IME in Hong Kong.
Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards by asdasdsddd on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:24PM (#40549603)
That's why I said almost all
Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards by alexlur on Saturday June 01, 2024 @06:34PM (#40549683)
It’s only almost all if you only interact with the millennials or younger. Pinyin is an IME for Mandarin. If you aren’t fluent in Mandarin, chances are you use voice input or stroke typing.
Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards by causality0 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @09:08PM (#40550553)
Why shouldn't it be mainland-centric? Mainland China is 99.5 percent of the population of China. That's like refuting a claim about Americans by calling it "a very non-Pennsylvanian view".
Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards by alexlur on Saturday June 01, 2024 @09:34PM (#40550667)
Because China is not the only place where Chinese languages are spoken. There’s more than 10 million ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia alone. And it’s not only a mainland-centric view: it’s a mainland–Mandarin speaking centric view.
Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards by DiogenesKynikos on Sunday June 02, 2024 @03:06AM (#40552014)
Pinyin is used as input to select characters, but the final text that's used to communicate is composed of characters.