We all know what a typewriter looks like, and how this has been translated directly into the modern day computer keyboard, or ...

Heads and shoulders better than anything that Windows or Linux have ever come up with. It all has to do with the magic trackpad and the sheer size of it. For Japanese, hand-scrawling is always going ...

Decades before its rediscovery in the Anglophone world, autocomplete was invented for putting Chinese characters into a computer. This is an excerpt from The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the ...

When installing Windows 11/10 for the first time, or on the first startup after installation, the OS offers a few Setup options. This includes different settings and of them is adding a language, for ...

My wife wants to use my notebook for Chinese input. It runs English Windows XP Home and she wants it that way. She can browse English and Chinese text-based websites. She wants to be able to enter ...

In 2014, Stanford historian Thomas Mullaney placed a call he had been waiting to make for a decade. The woman who picked up, Lois Lew, was a Chinese-American who had spent most of her life running a ...