From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: LEE Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recommended Chinese input methods in emacs? Date: 14 Jun 2004 14:38:15 +0200 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87aczcwdej.fsf@osu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-7 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088535918 18517 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 19:05:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 19:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 21:05:01 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfNuf-0004KW-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:05:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfNwK-0000Xt-Rc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:06:44 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!feed.news.tiscali.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 55 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123766 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19124 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19124 >>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Rutt 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). -- Lee Sau Dan +Z05biGVm- ~{@nJX6X~} E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee