摘要 |
Ideographic character selection and recording is accomplished by apparatus that encodes outputs of individually operable devices each corresponding to an unique character identifier component, for example phonetics. That encoding is used to address a data store containing whole characters or keys thereto organised in sets according to particular ones, preferably combinations, of the character identifier components. A limit of less than 7 device operations is envisaged for data store address completion. A visual display unit will then show all contents of a selected set for selection of the particular one character being entered by said devices. Data identifying that character is then added to an encoded multi- character message, and may simply be printed out locally or transmitted to some more sophisticated utilisation means, such as printing machinery or transmission facilities. <IMAGE> |