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Originally posted by nine_one_4
Do the Orientals also use foot pedals for input when using the computer?
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I don't know about the Chinese, but there's a thing built into XP that allows anyone to type in Japanese with a regular keyboard. I'm in the process of trying to learn Japanese, so I've installed it. Pretty darn cool, but I don't have it down yet.
The Japanese have 2 "alphabets" and a third set of symbols borrowed from the Chinese. The two alphabets, katakana and hiragana, have 46 basic characters each and are the same sounds but used for different things. The symbols borrowed from China are for sounds, words, phrases, ideas, etc... and the Japanese govt says that the avg adult should know about 2000 for daily life, reading the newspaper, etc...
So I guess that means about 2100 characters in all.
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