lovely bit of kit
seeing that led me down one rabbit hole, as it does.
I was looking at the frequency tables of hiragana characters gawron.sdsu.edu/crypto/japanese_models/hir_freq.html, and there's quite a long tail of rarely used characters. When you throw in katakana and the bazillion kanji characters it must have made the keyboard layout above quite challenging. They often use gojūon for laying out characters by phonomes similar to an alphabet grid, but this would be inefficient as the machine above shows, scrolling around for each character. Still as with qwerty, people take familiarity over efficiency but having to learn something new. Interestingly (or probably not), another study shows high frequency characters have been stable for 50 years, but low frequency character usage seems to change dramatically with time, perhaps in response to shifting cultural usage.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 27 Apr 2021, 23:49,
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