texwood

It took me awhile to get familiar with Changjie method.  Although I use mostly Simplified Changjie, I don't do enough Chinese typing daily to warrant using (full) Changjie all the time.  Still I don't agree with all the rules for all the characters, particularly 麗 (一一月月心); the way that character split is done by the two 一一 and not isolating the "deer" part of the character as the bottom.  If there's one character I want to change the coding on, 麗 is the one.

A couple of hints in Windows XP:

- The standard Changjie method (grey square) allows using * to substitute in between characters, effectively reducing it Simplified Changjie.  Therefore I don't use "Quick", I leave it at Changjie and do the "*" thing.

- Right click on the bottom square "A/半" -> 內容, if you select Changjie it will show you the complete Changjie code to complete the word; this helps with the learning

- The New Changjie method (green square) allows "*" for all in-between characters, so will help you narrow down your choices compared to Simplified Changjie.  However, unlike the standard Changjie, the New Changjie does not have the follow-up character function.

One thing I learn in practice...

肺 (lungs) is not "moon"　（月) + "city" (市)[ylb].  This is because the way you write "city" is dot first, then cross, finally moon hat and straight down.  The right part of lungs is rather written as straight across, then moon hat, and finally straight from the top going down in one stroke.  Therefore lungs is "bjb", not "bylb".

texwood

I'll make the dividing line of top and bottom at the "deer", "deer" will be the word's body which is IXP.  The top part is M and B (the dot or dash inside the B is eliminated by simplification rule, just like 夠).  The "deer" part fulfills the 3-stoke limit for a word's body, so no futher simpification is needed.  Thus the end result of my recommendation is MBIXP.

It just make no sense to me to have the word's dividing line at the two dashes instead of before the "deer".

texwood

Here is a question:  what's the Changjie code for  凸 and 凹?  (No looking at dictionaries please!)

texwood

Another complaint that I have regarding Changjie:   Changjie do not allow overlapping of symbols for the purposes of separation (eg. 考 does not start with "gh" but "jk", because the "h" overlaps with the "g" which is not an allowable separation of parts)... *except* if the parts involved are 木，大，or 火.  Why these three exceptions?  What makes these three parts so special that they warrant such special rule?

My biggest beef about Changjie is too many special rules - exception this, exception that.  And Microsoft's Changjie is staying at the 3rd generation level; 5th generation Changjie has some improvements (very tiny), but it is not being intergrated into the OS.

texwood

凹 is SSU.

texwood

Just looked at the information on the 6th generation Changjie; it looks like that my suggestion for 麗 has already been included.  難(X) has been eliminated and "H" has been changed.  I don't know whether this system will get incorporated in any future OS'es though.

http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index. ... 5&variant=zh-hk

texwood

In XP, go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages -> check on Install files for East Asian languages... the system will reboot.  

After that, go back to the same Ctrl Panel -> click Details... button -> click Add... -> Input Langauge:  select Chinese (Taiwan) -> check on Keyboard layout/IME -> select Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie.