Relative stroke ideographic character input keyboard

摘要

The invention provides a character input method (CIM) for ideographic languages to input textual data on the basis of relative stroke positions within the characters to produce electronic files. By identifying key-strokes and assigning each of the key-strokes to appropriate multiple keyboard positions, this character input method simulates the relative positions of these key-strokes within a particular character. The user can select the appropriate keyboard position for a particular essential stroke depending on that essential stroke's position relative to other strokes within the layout of a particular character or character-root. The keyboard positions for other non-key strokes are also decided by their relative stroke positions within the character.