HPR 412 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Syllabary, Pinyin, Qwerty
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90s chinese keyboards relied on hanyu pinyin - a latin alphabet based phoneticization system for chinese characters. 19th century electric telegraphy expanded beyond latin alphabetic word morse. Code came into contact with languages, scripts, alphabets, and syllabaries that it was not designed to handle. This reliance on numerals was expensive for morse code, with the shortest code sequence being five short dots" . and the longest being five long dashes" (s40). Linguistic and technical challenged that confronted wang jingchun, vocal advocate of the. Chinese photicization, who sought to transform the language into a fully alphabetic script capable of functioning independently of a character-based writing system (s41). A new chinese alphabet emerged in 50s. Samuel h. caldwell was fascinated by the chinese computing puzzle. Set out to build a computer for chinese. Far fewer strokes are required to select a particular chinese character than are required to write it (s51) Caldwell passed away in 1960 before the project was complete.
