#pinyin — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pinyin, aggregated by home.social.
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We just landed initial support for Chinese (via #pinyin) and Japanese (via #anthy / romaji) in #Phosh's on screen keyboard #stevia using #uim 🥳
As our current maintainers don't speak / write these languages we appreciate testing feedback and people joining development so we can improve things further in this important area.
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what on earth is going on in this sentence? i might try to work this out for myself later, just thinking aloud for now…
"Hong Wei Xian, a/k/a "Harry Zan," 32, and Li Li, a/k/a "Lea Li," 33, both from the People's Republic of China (PRC)" from https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/2-chinese-nationals-charged-illegally-attempting-export-military-satellite-components
"a/k/a" is bizarre, but not very interesting, the names are more interesting.
I would guess that the first names listed are the standard transcriptions of their names in #Pinyin from Simplified Chinese?
But why is it different in their English names?
Harry and Lea make sense, the closest common English name … but Zan is weird?
#Taiwan uses a different system to Pinyin … but would the USA refer to them as being from the PRC? and if they were a Taiwanese spy working for the PRC to steel microchip making secrets, they'd be in Taiwan?
Maybe Hong Kong or Macau ?
Maybe judder easier to spell for Americans? but then a Pinyin X would be an S or Sh if you wrote it more phonetically?
Maybe a spy alias that's not even supposed to be the same name?
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#USA #PRC #HongKong #Macau #ChineseLanguages #ChineseNames #SimplifiedChinese #TraditionalChinese #Mandarin #Cantonese #HongWeiXian #XianHongWei #HarryZan #LiLi #LeaLi
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@Thomashegna The characters are definitely 龙头 (lóng tóu). I'm absolutely not fluent in #Mandarin or #Pinyin aka #SimplifiedChinese but maybe through the magic of hashtags we can find someone who is.... (I just know too many words for "dragon", lol).
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Is anyone working on a Chinese/Mandarin/Pinyin keyboard for #grapheneos ?
#opensource #keyboard #mobile #chinese #Hanyu #hanyupinyin #pinyin #mandarin #simplifiedchinese #android
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How China Conquered The Keyboard #China #Taiwan #Romanization #Romanisation #AI #MachineLearning #Pinyin #Zhuyin #Bopomofo #注音 #PredictiveText #ChineseTyping
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#Fcitx is a flexible input system.
Fcitx is an extensible input system which provides themed suggestion popups. Fcitx has builtin support for #Pinyin, and has a useful example input method. Fcitx is versatile, and can be used for everything from English #autosuggest, to Pinyin Chinese, as well as #Hangul and Japanese.
Website 🔗️: https://fcitx-im.org/
apt 📦️: fcitx
