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Re: Pinyin

"Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com> Fri, 26 September 2008 17:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: Pinyin
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Hi -

> From: "Mark Crispin" <markrcrispin@live.com>
> To: "Tracey, Niall" <niall.tracey@logica.com>; "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>; "Randy Presuhn"
<randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>; <ietf-languages@iana.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:24 AM
> Subject: RE: Pinyin
...
> The bottom line is that it is not safe to assume that any automated
> process can convert Hanyu pinyin into Han without human
> intervention.
...

Yes, but this does not negate the thrust of the argument that an
input method (including one which relies on human feedback
to deal with homonyms) works much better if it knows precisely
what conventions are being used in its input stream.

Randy

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