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![]() The good folks at the BBC assure us that an educated Chinese person will only know about 8,000 characters-but can you imagine a keyboard with more than 8,000 keys? ( Here’s an early attempt. It instead uses more than 50,000 (!) characters, making the WYSIWYG model entirely impractical. Why did so many technology experts of the mid-20th century think Chinese script would not adapt to the keyboard-dominated digital world?.Press the button marked ‘Q’ and ‘Q’ appears. In all but rare instances, we assume a one-to-one correspondence between the symbols on the keys we strike and the symbols that we want to appear on the screen. The author interviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books is less charitable: “ We use the computer keyboard in a dumb, what-you-type-is-what-you-get kind of way. QWERTY is WYSIWYG-what you see is what you get.(QWERTY are the first five letter keys on the top left of the keyboard.) QWERTY describes the standard layout on keyboards for languages that use Latin script.Illustration by Zamoeux, courtesy Wikimedia. This standard Taiwanese keyboard has the traditional QWERTY keyboard with Latin letters, as well as the zhuyin (phonetic), cangjie (geometric shape), and dayi (stroke order) input methods. Teachers, scroll down for a quick list of key resources in our Teachers’ Toolkit. Get to know your QWERTY with these free, challenging keyboarding games. How did that happen? (Los Angeles Review of Books) Today, Chinese is a world script and China is an IT giant. Conventional wisdom of the past 200 years held that China would have to abandon character-based writing and embrace alphabetization in order to prosper from world trade and technological change.
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