A question of character.
The article discusses the typing of text other than the English language into a mobile phone. The written languages of many Asian countries aren't compatible with predictive-text software so pinyin, which is a phonetic system used to transliterate Chinese words into the Latin alphabet as well as str...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 393; no. 8661; p. 8 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
12/12/2009
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