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Book -- "The Chinese Typewriter"
This book sounds really interesting -- how to make a typewriter for the Chinese language? I read a review of the book in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, but the WSJ doesn't allow you to read it online unless you subscribe. So here is another review:
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Re: Book -- "The Chinese Typewriter"
Hmmm... 500+ pages just on the development of the Chinese typewriter? You'd have to be a really serious typewriter enthusiast to want to plow through that material!
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: Book -- "The Chinese Typewriter"
Sounds like it's right up your alley, then! 
Actually, some of the description of how it was tackled has parallels with how computer language developed.
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Re: Book -- "The Chinese Typewriter"
It got a brief write-up in the New Yorker recently.
Also, more in-depth coverage in this hour-long podcast at Tech Nation Radio.
