On 7/22/22 12:06, Sebastian Higgins wrote: > A few things: > > 1. Cangjie is still widely used in places that uses traditional Chinese > characters. You would still be required to be good at it if you apply for > text-heavy office jobs in these places. > 2. Radical-based/shape-based methods were extremely popular when the > prediction technology wasn't as good (which means Pinyin was significantly > slower). It wasn't until late 2000s to early 2010s before this situation has > changed. > 3. Pinyin without prediction is slow because of what we called the 重码 (lit. > "overlap of encoding") problem. For Pinyin the encoding overlaps because many > characters may have the same Pinyin; the purpose of all shape-based method is > to reduce the overlap problem and thus increase the input speed. > 4. ctrans uses cangjie because (1) implementing shape-based methods was > much, much more simpler than phonetic-based methods because most (if not all) > of the job is table lookup; (2) if we were to use the same UI (or lack > thereof) as ktrans the overlap-of-encoding problem of Pinyin would very > probably drive you nuts when using it; (3) it is the input method the author > uses, however I do admit using Cangjie for simplified Chinese input is kinda > peculiar. > > Source: me who is a native Chinese speaker and have learned Wubi (a > shape-based method for simplified Chinese) in primary school.
I had taken a naive attempt at trying getting ktrans to support a form of Chinese input. Admitably, my interest was mostly in stress testing my rewrite of the hashmap used in ktrans, throwing a ~100k character dictionary at it seemed like a fun way to test it. The dictionary I imported was one that used Wubi based mapping for charters, posted by jxy to the 9front mailing list a week or so ago. If anyone is curious the dictionary itself can be found here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fcitx/fcitx-table-data/master/wbx.txt This has been super interesting to me from a learning perspective. Thanks for the insight! Jacob Moody ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tba6835d445e07919-Mcf3888dbfc4013192d8c471e Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
