So, if the Chinese don’t have an alphabet and use only pictograms comprising of over 6500 characters, how do they type on a keyboard? Do they have really large keyboards with over 6500 keys or do they just say “Screw Mandarin” and type in English (which can’t be true because I’ve seen Chinese characters on webpages/spam emails)? Is there some kind of algorithmic key pressing magic that goes on in order to produce said characters?
I know we’re on “no stupid questions” but this feels dangerously close to a stupid question. If you had just googled “Chinese keyboard” instead of typing this whole post out you would have gotten your answer right away.
They assign ~3 characters per key and press a modifier key like shift to switch between them as needed.
We also get to discuss it as well
I don’t use Google. I deGoogled my life. Besides, if we just used Google for everything there would be no point communicating at all and thus no point in Lemmy. We could all just ask the Master Google questions, chat with it’s AI and stay locked in our bedrooms eating pizza sponsored by Google.
Google. Duckduckgo. Bing. Fuckin ask Jeeves. The point was this was the type of thing that could have been research on your own in like 15 seconds.
And the point is that I’d rather talk to a human.
Which method are you talking about lol
Method? Idk my roommate for like 6 years was Chinese and he had a keyboard that he could switch between American English and Chinese. He showed me how it worked and the key caps all had a few Chinese symbols next to each English letter and he could cycle between them as needed. He wasn’t as fast typing in Chinese, but it was the only way for him to communicate with certain family as they couldn’t speak or read English at all.
When his mom visited her laptop also had a similar set up except on hers the English letters were smaller and the. Chinese symbols were bigger. I assume because she bought it in China or something.
See, now I’ve learned something that I wouldn’t get from Google.