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Paul Guertin (p...@sff.et -- et?!?) posted:

> Here's the japanese kana keyboard. Nowadays, though, most people

Thank you! It has been added to the collection.

Been meaning to do this for a long time.... Below is how the Bopomofo
syllabary, a.k.a. Zhuyin Fuhao or National Phonetic Alphabet, is laid
out. I've used Yale romanization rather than the now-ubiquitous Pinyin
because it's the same in many cases, I know it better, and it gives a
better approximation of the sounds for non-Sinophone English speakers.
The numbers are tones (3 and 4 are on the 3 and 4 keys; first tone is
the space bar). Power typists mostly use stroke-based systems; this is
for folks like me who only occasionally type Chinese:

b(o)  d(e)  3     4        j(r)   2   .     a     ai  an  er
 p(o)  t(e)  g(e)  j(i/y)   ch(r)  dz  (y)i  (w)o  ei  en
  m(o)  n(e)  k(e)  ch(i/y)  sh(r)  ts  (w)u  e     au  ang
   f(o)  l(e)  h(e)  sy(i)    r      sz  (y)u  (y)e  ou  eng

Y'know, we did Chinese with an expansion card on the Apple II -- and I
really should make sure my MacChina disks still work on my Mac 512Ke....

Dan Strychalski                dski at cameonet, cameo, com, tw (no _x_)