On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:50:03 -0600 Runsun Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/27/06, Magnus Lycka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, it seems that recent habit of sending text > > messages via mobile phones is the prime driver for > > reformed spelling these days.
OMG ru kdng? Make it stop! Well, let's just say, I think there should be different standards for "write once / read once" versus "write once / read many". The mere use of written language once implied the latter, but I suppose text messaging breaks that rule. > Well, to solve the problem you can either (1) reform the > spelling of a language to meet the limitation of mobile > phones, or (2) advancing the input device on the mobile > phones such that they can input the language of your > choice. For most asian languages, (1) is certainly out of > question. IIRC, back in the 1990s there was a *lot* of work in Japan on optical character recognition, and especially "digital ink" or "stroke" recognition. With all the pen tablets out these days, it seems like that would be an awfully good way to handle ideograms. First of all, they are, much more than Western alphabets, strict about stroke order and direction (technically the Roman alphabet is supposed to be drawn a certain way, but many people "cheat" -- I think that's harder to get away with with Asian characters, because they tend not to look right when drawn wrong). And when you have the actual stroke sequence data as input, recognition is easier and more reliable (I think that was the point behind the "graffiti" system for the Palm Pilot). -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list