How does a chinese keyboard look like?

Question

Or japanese,or other languages that don't use our alphabet...

Answer 1

Dear, mihaela.
There is two basic layouts of keyboard, one is 'Dvorak' simplified keyboard and 'QWERTY' layout. The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (pronounced /'dvoræk/) is a keyboard layout patented in 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak, a professor of Education at the University of Washington, and William Dealey as an alternative to the more common QWERTY layout. It has also been called the Simplified Keyboard or American Simplified Keyboard, but is commonly known as the Dvorak keyboard or Dvorak layout. The Dvorak keyboard layout became easier to access in the computer age. Currently, all major Operating Systems (such as Apple OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and BSD) ship with Dvorak keyboard layout in addition to the standard QWERTY layout. Dvorak Simplified Keyboard has failed to displace the QWERTY standard.
Although Dvorak Simplified Keyboard is implemented in many other languages other than English, there is a possible issue about it. Every Dvorak implementation in other languages leave the roman characters in the same position as the english Dvorak Simplified Keyboard. However, other (occidental) language Grammars can clearly have other typing needs for optimization (many very different as English). This raises a point which questions Dvorak Simplified Keyboard's typing optimizations as language free, and can be another possible cause of Dvorak not replacing QWERTY worldwide.
Chinese language uses a logographic script — that is, a script where one or two "characters" corresponds roughly to one "word" or meaning — there are vastly more characters, or glyphs, than there are keys on a standard computer keyboard. Many early Chinese computers used keyboards with thousands of keys. A variety of keyboard input method editors or IMEs have been designed to allow the input of Chinese characters using standard keyboards.

Keyboard input methods can be classified in three main types:

by encoding
by pronunciation
by structure of the characters.

In relation to the Japanese language and computers many adaptation issues arise, some unique to Japanese and others common to languages which have a very large number of characters. The number of characters needed in order to write English is very small, and thus it is possible to use only one byte to encode one English character. However, the number of characters in Japanese is much more than 256, and hence Japanese cannot be encoded using only one byte, and Japanese is thus encoded using two or more bytes, in a so-called "double byte" or "multi-byte" encoding. Some problems relate to transliteration and romanization, some to character encoding, and some to the input of Japanese text.

I think this is enough imformation to you.
Vilas

Answer 2

There are about a dozen common ways to input chinese ideograms and it range from using a "qwerty" keyboard by Pinyin (phonics), a bi-lingual keyboard with partial characters and the hand written pen pad.
The chinese keyboard is laid out in a simuilar fashion like an english one, except with more notes or markings on each key.

Answer 3

You don't need a special keyboard to write in Chinese for instance. I just use my laptop keyboard and it works just fine， 没有问题 ( which means no problems ). You just have to install the program in your computer.

Answer 4

they're the same as qwerty but just different characters. some symbols are made with different letters...

Answer 5

well.. i am arabic, so my keyboard.. on the left are the english letters, and on the right are the arabic letters.

Answer 6

http://libai.math.ncu.edu.tw/bcc16/pool/image/mini-keyboard.jpg

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
has some pics for you

Answer 8

its strange

Answer 9

Long & thin.