What is Cangjie ime?

Cangjie Input method is a commonly used Chinese input, by the "Father of Chinese computer," Mr. Chu, a Taiwanese man, was created in 1976. Only the original version of traditional Chinese characters, formerly known as "Shape and meaning indexing system", to solve the problem of computer processing, including Chinese character input, glyph output, internal code storage, Chinese character sorting. Chu invented this input method when he developed the Chinese communication system for the armed Forces University, in order to commemorate the spirit of Cangjie in ancient times, Ching in 1978 this input method was renamed as "Cangjie Input method." 1980, with Acer to publish the world's first "Chinese operating system, Chinese programming language, Chinese packaged software" Chinese computer-tianlong Chinese computer.

Cangjie Input method is suitable for a variety of platforms, mainstream operating systems and most electronic dictionaries are embedded. Some online Chinese character dictionaries also use Cangjie encoding as the retrieval tool.

In the early 1980, Chu designed the Chinese system on personal computers, with Cangjie code as its root, the word tens of thousands of, the efficiency is very high.

1982, Chu in the newspaper publicly waived Cangjie input method patent, and strongly promote the computer culture. Today most operating systems, even some electronic dictionaries are accompanied by Cangjie input method, for the Roman Chinese world's most popular form code input method. [1].

Chu originally wanted to establish a set of "Cangjie system" according to its "Chinese character gene" theory, and use Cangjie code to deal with the six major problems, such as the form, sound, meaning, code, order and differentiation of Chinese characters. The original purpose of Cangjie code is to search and sort Chinese characters, the code has the word first and the concept of the body, with the word first as a classification, the body as a supplement, so that the computer can "understand" the Chinese characters, and then to achieve the group word, meaning understanding, and even the function of communication with people.

Cangjie Input method is designed not only for input, but also an integrated Chinese system. Chinese characters take the Cangjie code as the inner code, so that the Chinese character's character sequence

Clearly, new words are added at any time, no big five yards and unified code of the lack of words, word order confusion shortcomings. The output aspect, the Chinese character Glyph generator takes the Cangjie code as the basic, produces the glyph automatically. No need to store the glyphs of each word, greatly reducing the required memory space. (for example, Chu in 1989 with the fifth generation of Cangjie integration System, to provide the character structure of the word millions of, 70,000 for the actual word. Because the input and output is unified to Cangjie processing, the code can be consistent with the glyph. At present, the sixth generation Cangjie (also known as Cang Jie) as the core of Chinese system, used to construct the Chinese literature and history of the historical database, Cangjie the advantages of the system has been played.