Who was the earliest inventor of Chinese input method and when was it born?

It is generally believed that the earliest Chinese input method in China was produced on a personal computer PC in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Since the National Bureau of Standards issued the Basic Character Set of Chinese Characters for Information Interchange (GB 23 1 9812-80) in/kloc-0, the widespread use of Chinese input methods has really begun.

The history of Chinese character input method in Taiwan Province Province can be traced back to 1976, when Cangjie input method was invented by Zhu Bangfu.

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After 1990s, pinyin input method software began to support phrase input and whole sentence input.

At the beginning of 1993, Mr. Zhu Shoutao of Peking University invented the intelligent ABC input method, which was acquired by Microsoft and built into the Windows system. In the next few years, intelligent ABC input method became the most used input method software in Chinese mainland.

In 1990s, the double spelling input method and the corresponding input method software developed rapidly. There are many schemes of double spelling input method, such as the natural code scheme provided by natural code input software, and the combination of phonetic coding with double spelling and radicals or strokes, which provides a fast way to input Chinese characters, which is beyond the scope of pinyin input method. Strictly speaking, the spelling of natural codes is not pure pinyin, but a phonetic code.

The popular Chinese input method software in Windows system includes Sogou Pinyin Input Method, sogou Wu Bi Input Method, Baidu Pinyin Input Method, QQ Pinyin Input Method, QQ Wu Bi Input Method, Google Pinyin Input Method Pole Chinese Character Input Platform, etc.

By default, these input methods include pinyin input method, font input method and other coding methods, and some can also realize other input methods through custom settings, such as handwriting, strokes, strokes and Zheng codes. The input method frameworks in Linux distribution, Mac OS X system and smart phones generally integrate a variety of popular input method codes, and you can freely switch different input methods under the same input method software.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Input Method