The Prospect of Chinese Characters
2 min readEnefit of Uniform Writing
This uniform writing has helped China to unite and prosper in at least two ways.First，it is part of the cultural identity of people across dialects and ethnic groups.Without it the mutually unintelligible spoken dialects might have developed into different languages，and the minority peopleswould not be able to share as common cultural legacy with the Han people.Second，the enduring writing has contributed to the political，social and cultural stability of the country for centuries.
The Prospect of Chinese Characters
In the information era，it has been very difficult for Chinese people to know how to solve the problem of Chinese characters’use in computers.As early as the end of the fifties of the 20th Century，China had begun the research work on automatic translation from Russian to Chinese in domestic computers.By the end of the sixties，Chinese telegraph encoder had beeninvented.In the seventies，China began to study and develop Chinese information processing technology systematically.In order to unify a standard Chinese code，the country publicized in 1980“Domestic Standard Exchange Codes of Chinese.”
Since then the problem of Chinese characters’storage，display and printing in computers has been worked out.However，people were still confronted with the problem of how to type Chinese characters quickly into computers.Through dauntless efforts，various input methods have been invented.With the further application of such technologies as handwriting input and pronunciation input，the ancient Chinese characters have gained a second youth in today’s information society and have a more promising future.
