Not so for Chinese computing. When inputting Chinese, the symbols a person sees on a QWERTY keyboard are always different from the symbols that ultimately appear on the monitor or on paper. Every ...

Online Chinese typing tools built on pinyin input – once thought unsuited – and using the power of predictive text allow phone and computer users to type in Chinese faster than anyone can in ...

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. By Thomas Mullaney. MIT Press; 376 pages; $34.95 and £32 T he National Chinese Characters Typing Competition is rarely cause for ...

Almost all keyboard apps used by Chinese people around the world share a security loophole that makes it possible to spy on what users are typing. The vulnerability, which allows the keystroke ...