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ChineseFiveStrokeInput 0.1.0
This is first release of ChineseFiveStrokeInput.
It is very unstable, untested, and only available on Windows.
Inspiration
I have learned Chinese in high school and I have been obsessed with Chinese. So, I started to find the way to type Chinese characters in my phone and finally I found Google's Chinese keyboard. The keyboard contains various typing methods. One of them is pinyin method and another one of them is 5-stroke method. I'm inspired by the fact that I can type characters with only 5 buttons so I decided to make Windows version myself.
5-stroke method(a.k.a Wubihua method) is the way to type Chinese characters with only 5 strokes, vertical, horizontal, dot(falling to right), slash(falling to left), and turning. According to Chinese stroke order(Wikipedia - "Stroke order"), you just type corresponding strokes to the character you want to type. For example, '十' is consist with 2 strokes, vertical and horizontal. According to stroke order, you have to type horizontal stroke first and then type vertical strokes because they are crossed with each other.
Features
- You can type strokes by clicking those buttons or pressing 'i', 'o', 'p', 'k', 'l' key after press 'F9' key.
- 'F9' key has exactly the same function of 'Input Toggle' button.
- You can translate Chinese characters to pinyin, hangul, simplified, or tradition.
- Put some Chinese characters into the text box below the stroke buttons and press those buttons.