Type “a” on a QWERTY keyboard hooked up to a Chinese computer, on the other hand, and the computer is off anticipating the next characters. Typing in Chinese requires mediation from a layer of ...

Particularly, how do you match the tens of thousands of Chinese characters to the 26 letters on a QWERTY keyboard? The first attempt was vastly different from the keyboard apps today, and centered ...

the act of getting Chinese characters to appear on a computer monitor or other digital device using a QWERTY keyboard or trackpad. Stills taken from a 2013 Chinese input competition screencast.

Chinese characters, or hanzi ... Android devices can use the Swype keyboard ...

How do you type Chinese characters on a keyboard? You use a piece of software called an “input method editor,” which allows conventional-looking keyboards to produce the thousands of ...

And on top of it all, Chinese characters are the oldest continuously-used system of writing in the world. So how the hell does it work on a modern computer keyboard? We checked out this Slate ...

This A1Pro keyboard isn’t that useful for us, who can type just fine with the standard QWERTY keys, but is incredibly useful for, say, Chinese people who want to write characters the way they ...