June 2008
Beginner
360 pages
9h 9m
English
For most European languages (and many other alphabet-based non-European languages), pressing a letter on the keyboard simply prints that letter to the screen. However, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean require a kind of conversion process that is handled by a special application (actually a set of applications) called an Input Method Editor (IME). Of course, this is a Windows-world term, but I will use it here for convenience's sake. In any case, each of these languages has its own IME, and each is quite different due to the basic differences in the three writing systems.
While most people (at least those in the linguistic know) would think that Chinese would be the most complicated system, because the writing ...
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