METHOD OF ENCODING AND INPUTING COMPLICATED OR SIMPLIFIED FORM OF CHINESE CHARACTER AND KEYBOARD THEREOF

A method for encoding chinese character and inputting them into a computer, each chinese character being comprised of one or more character components and each character component being constituted by one or more strokes according to traditional writting order, the method is characterized by steps of: 1) classifying plurality of character components forming chinese characters into 10 groups which are marked as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th groups respectively according to the similarity between each character component and one of the chinese numbers mentioned above; 2) designating the character components in the 10 groups to number keys 1 to 9 and 0 respectively such that each character component in the 10 groups corresponds to a number; and 3) dividing a chinese character to be encoded into at least one character component and inputing the number corresponding to said at least one character component into a computer using keyboard. L'invention concerne un procédé de codage des caractèr