Re: [9fans] ctrans - Chinese language input for Plan9

[Lucio De Re <lucio.dere@gmail.com>]

I have only one word for all the above: amazing!

As a dumb occidental, I have no idea where one starts with ideograms,
but I realise how different the concept is and how its complexity can
stimulate technical creativity.

Well done, all!

Lucio.

On 7/20/22, smj@9p.sdf.org <smj@9p.sdf.org> wrote:
> With the recent commit of 'ktrans' to 9front, SDF boot camper 'ldb' as taken
> the
> idea and created 'ctrans' https://9p.sdf.org/who/ldb
> 
> As Kenji Okamoto has pointed out, 'ktrans' would be difficult to extend to
> Chinese due to the massive number of characters necessary.  While Japanese
> can
> get away with ~2500 daily use characters, Chinese requires quite a bit more.
> 
> The advantage in Japanese is that there are two other writing alphabets
> which are
> purely phonetic and useful for importing foreign words.
> 
> ldb's 'ctrans' had to take the 'ktrans' idea and optimize it a bit more to
> support
> 20,000 characters.  The result is a mechanism that more or less behaves like
> ktrans
> but is quick (even over drawterm) to cycle through character lists.
> 
> moody has seen this work and it has been an inspiration to adapt to 'ktrans'
> for
> even faster Kanji look up which could allow for more esoteric Kanji to be
> added.
> 
> In addition a new font 'HanaMinA' has been adapted which beautifully
> supports both
> Japanese and Chinese characters and it is what we recommend folks use on
> 9p.sdf.org.
> 
> Thank you ldb for your great work!
> 
> ldb, お疲れ様です!
> 
> smj

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