Subject: Englist-to-Chinese input method on MAC ?

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 13:15:00 H

Hello everyone,

Can anyone help in the following questions:

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I wonder if there is a English-Chinese Replacement input method for the Mac
Chinese OS 6.0.X ?
(ie the user types in a English term and it gets translated into Chinese and
 gets input into text).

If there isn't, then are there any English to Chinese translation stacks
developed on HyperCard ?
( I understand that there is already two HyperCard Chinese dictionary stacks
  made available by Edmund K. Lai).
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Gan Kok Wee

Thanks in advance.
Department of Information Systems and Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Bitnet address: [email-masked]

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From: Ed Lai <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1991 07:53:08 -0700

If it is really language translation, we all know how difficult that would
be.

If it is done on a word by word base, then in a sense it is no different
from pinyin input. Think of the English word as a macro that generate
Chinese character string. Then Cihui 1.8 can be used to do the job provided
there is a English to Chinese word phrase dictionary.

However, the input can be very very funny. If you want to input the greeting
Ni Hao, the direct word to word English translation is 'you good', so that
is what you type in, and this will be very unnatural for an English speaking
person.

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