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Originally Posted by kartu

How does Chinese keyboard look like? They certainly can type on standard US keyboard, turning combination of keys into single glyph, or?

tbh, I had not considered that a chinese dictionary on e-ink must be a type & search dictionary. bc the input method is so rapidly displayed (a list of options that changes as you type more before executing a choice), that the e-ink screen may not refresh fast enough to display clearly or not be a nuissance of black "page turn flashing". My main puzzle is how to create a speedy lookup of a simply selected word on screen. An epub or mobi or other format could do it with a multi level table of contents (root characters as chapters, then a number of different ways of organizing the more complex characters built upon the simple root shapes).

Here's an example of that:
http://hewgill.com/hanzidict/

(I couldn't get calibre to even open that dictionary on my PC but it's structure is hyperlink demonstrated on that site under "dictionary preview")

My idea was it would be a great way to learn unknown characters for which you don't know the pronunciation. I believe there is no input method which exists, without knowing the pronunciation of the character. So typing in a dictionary for a character, not its romanized word, doesn't seem possible, if you don't already know the character.

But here is what I know about chinese keyboards and inputting.


The two photographs on the right side show it perfectly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method_editor

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../Ob_gif_ch.gif


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CJK_characters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Chinese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese..._for_computers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...UNIX_platforms



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Common_Input_Method
http://www.scim-im.org/
http://www.scim-im.org/news/imengine..._tables_0_5_10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lCN2G5lEzM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Input_Bus
http://code.google.com/p/ibus/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvIobt5JpXI
http://www.chinese-forums.com/index....ime-for-linux/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Pinyin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVZ2D721Rzo

http://www.m17n.org/m17n-lib-en/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uim
http://code.google.com/p/uim/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-F0p2lqEF0

All of the above is open source. Here's windows doing the same thing, closed source.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fNeNbmGQrE


which is all very different from russian keyboard on ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcVeJWwqh7U