Today Was Definitely A Reading Day: Unicode, Semantics, Possible Introduction of a Primezero Chinese Tools Input Method Editor
November 30, 2007 – 1:10 am
Today was definitely a reading day.
Reading Unicode reference texts and various papers on semantics on psycholinguistics.
Ahh, yes. Reading in the quietness watching the world pass by, discovering how little I understand about various topics of life. Then, with the new knowledge I acquire, I do my best to stand on the shoulders of giants to give my small, tiny contribution. 
Scanning through the Unicode character code charts, I learned some new characters and have a new feel for how Asian language processing can be properly implemented for simple, flexible applications.
The coolest thing about working with Unicode is that I get to “think in hexadecimal”, which is just a fun way to organize the world.
So, a new Primezero Chinese Tools IME may be in progress …
Development notes so far…
- users do not want tedious entry of characters
- on the other hand, users do not want to be bound by a restricted subset
- users want visual cues for frequently used characters
- learners may want information about their character before they use it
- learners may want to hear the character sound
- UniHan is very verbose and difficult to wield for smaller projects so smaller indexes must be somehow utilized
… つづく
