On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:37 -0700 (PDT)
pwnedd <
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>
>
> Ronald Stroethoff wrote:
> >
> > I think that a bigger problem is where to find a descent table with
> > pinyin and
> > chinese with the apropiate license (well, I do not want to type this
> > table).
> >
> > Ronald Stroethoff
> >
>
> Are the tables used for traditional and simple Chinese input via Smart
> Pinyin different? And would it be possible to modify the current
> table, and contribute it back? I would like to make contribute, but I
> don't want to have to start from scratch.
>
> Keith
>
The biggest problem would probably be that a number of simplified
Chinese characters map to any of several traditional Chinese
characters, so that any word containing even one of those characters
would have to be typed in manually. This is hardly true of any
characters when converting from simplified to traditional Chinese, so
it's too bad the data aren't in traditional Chinese originally.
Another problem is that some words, especially foreign names but also
Chinese words, differ between the mainland and the areas where
traditional Chinese is or has been used. An input method geared towards
mainland users might not contain the words used in other variants of
Mandarin Chinese, so those would have to be added from another source.
So in other words, it's doable, but not trivial...?
- David Oftedal
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