Chinese input method: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 06:53, 14 May 2004

Revision as of 00:36, 25 May 2004

Line 1:

__NOTOC__<!--needs to be higher-->

Because the [[Chinese language]] is a [[logogram|logographic]] language --in which one "[[Chinese written language|character]]" corresponds roughly to one "word" or meaning --there are vastly more characters, or glyphs, than there are keys on a standard [[computer keyboard]].

To allow the input of Chinese using standard keyboards a variety of keyboard input methods have been designed.