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0 pointscatapart6mo ago0 comments

Same way I do: with your OS's on-screen keyboard.

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Congratulations on being fluent in Hanzi, I guess, but that does not solve a problem for the vast majority of the users.

catapartOP6mo ago

I don't even understand it; I just can recognize a character and type it in. The only time I have to do so is in looking at poorly designed firmware sites and stuff like that, but I manage when the developers do not accomodate for me.

But that's not what the topic is. The topic is HOW developers should accomodate users. And I'm simply taking the stance that preventing user selectability is a lesser evil in specific cases than universal selectability, because the former can be mitigated with less scripting overhead than the latter.

whstl6mo ago

A native Chinese high school graduate is generally expected to know around 3500 characters. A middle school student, 2500-3000.

For Kanji the numbers are around 2136 and 1200 and respectively.

If you know the language, then you don't need this.

But if you're claiming that you can type a random Hanzi or Kanji character you see in an interface without speaking the language, you are either missing something here or not arguing in good faith.

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