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No support for Chinese inputs (Traditional, Simplified) #450

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Currently, there is no support for Chinese inputs, such as Traditonal Chinese 
inputs and Simplified Chinese inputs.

Most Android versions of Hacker's Keyboard supports Traditional Chinese and 
Simplified Chinese inputs, but I don't see them.

Will the inputs be available in future releases and fix this issue?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tom.mai7...@gmail.com on 5 Jan 2015 at 10:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I added a FAQ entry for this just now: 
https://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#Can_you_
add_support_for_Chinese/Japanese/Korean/(other_specific

The current code is strongly oriented to alphabetic languages and is based on a 
fairly simple mapping from keypresses to output characters. Ideographic 
languages with complex input methods would need very different approaches, and 
I do not plan to support Chinese/Japanese/Korean and similar languages due to 
their complexity and lack of language knowledge on my part. Note that you can 
easily keep multiple keyboards installed and manually switch between them, for 
example using Hacker's Keyboard just for SSH while using the system keyboard 
for other applications.

Original comment by klausw@google.com on 6 Apr 2015 at 9:51