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Re: recommended Chinese input methods in emacs?
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LEE Sau Dan |
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Re: recommended Chinese input methods in emacs? |
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Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:36:52 -0000 |
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>>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Rutt <rutt.4鷬@osu.edu> writes:
Benjamin> The version of GNU Emacs I'm running comes with the
Benjamin> following chinese input methods:
Benjamin> chinese-4corner chinese-array30 chinese-b5-quick
Benjamin> chinese-b5-tsangchi chinese-ccdospy chinese-cns-quick
Benjamin> chinese-cns-tsangchi chinese-ctlau chinese-ctlaub
Benjamin> chinese-ecdict chinese-etzy chinese-punct
Benjamin> chinese-punct-b5 chinese-py chinese-py-b5
Benjamin> chinese-py-punct chinese-py-punct-b5 chinese-qj
Benjamin> chinese-qj-b5 chinese-sw chinese-tonepy
Benjamin> chinese-tonepy-punct chinese-ziranma chinese-zozy
Benjamin> Can someone recommend one or two of these input methods
It's up to you, your own taste and personal preference. That's why
there are so many there to choose from.
Benjamin> as being either the easiest one to learn
Well... if you speak Mandarin (or something close) as your mother
tongue and you have learnt Pinyin, then chinese-tonepy-punct and
chinese-py-punct-b5 would be the easiest. If you speak Cantonese,
then chinese-ctlaub and chinese-ctlau would be easy IF you're familiar
with the C.T. Lau Romanization of Cantonese.
Benjamin> and/or the one that leads to the highest productivity in
Benjamin> the long run, for a native Chinese speaker?
Cangjie (for traditional characters). It is ubiquitous on computer
systems supporting traditional characters (Big5 encoding). It
requires some training. Once trained, you can easily get to 20+ chars
per minute. Professional typists can reach 40 or 60. Some wizards
are reported to type at 200 chars per minute! This is possible
because Canjie is shape-based, and hence doesn't need to go through
the shape->sound->code process when one types. It's a direct
shape->code translation. So, touch-typing is possible.
If you want some speed but don't want to spend time on training
yourself, try chinese-4corner. It is shape-based, too. So, you can
enter characters even when you don't know how to pronounce it. You
need to learn the "4-corner" rules, which is just a 4 x 7 character
poem. Quite easy to learn. Reasonably fast (not very fast due to the
high frequency of code collision).
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Lee Sau Dan 李守敦 ~{@nJX6X~}
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee