Re: Last time, i18n options

Gavin Nicol ([email protected])
Wed, 26 Apr 1995 12:37:53 -0400


>I read that the recent pen based systems have sold well in Japan. It
>seems that western (roman) cursive is a bitch to writing recognition
>systems, while pictogram, kanji, ideogram writing is very successfull
>on the same systems. I imagine this has a lot to do with the fact
>that the strokes are taught and executed in a very specific gestural
>sequence. In this sense they are already gestural algorithms.

Very good deduction. This is indeed so. One of my problems is that I
write Kanji in the "wrong" order....