Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 20:57 -0400 2005-08-22, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > > Working to encode an unencoded script (that you didn't think there
> >> was any need to use on computers anyway) and working to make a
> >> keyboard layout that is practical and useful is in no way cultural
> >> imperialism.
> >
> >Making them think in roman alphabet is.
>
> Yeah, right. Chinese users who prefer pinyin input aren't m

Chinese users _don't_ prefer pinyin. They report it is much slower and
less intuitive (NB, Suzanne!) than the character-based input methods.
Typing-bee contestants never use it.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...