The type-setting machine for ideographic script esp. chinese has a keyboard with a number of network-like arranged keys to provide electrical contacts. A store contains a set of programs each of which is associated with a key of the keyboard and establishes coded signals for forming a corresponding symbol. On operation of the keys a corresponding program unit producing signals in lasting or transitory form renders possible a reads out of the corresponding program from the store. A register is brought into operation via the keys. For each key associated with a program it indicates the symbol determined by this program.
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