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Chi was greatly encouraged. His solo work runs parallel to these larger efforts. However, most of them still can’t get rid of the bulky keyboard. While breaking down characters into components is good enough for specific character retrieval indexes and typewriter keyboard designs, it doesn’t translate directly into writing such a process for a computer. Chi remembers the advantages of shape-based methods, where the character part helps to directly recognize the whole character. To incorporate this useful principle into his coding scheme, Zhi decided to use the first letter of the pinyin spelling of each component to index characters by...
