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Exactly.

At the extreme end, there are older Chinese users who often hand write Chinese on the screen to write a sentence, one character at a time.

In the middle there are many things, like Latin but unusual layout such as French bepo, or Chinese input methods based on shapes, or Japanese kana, or the old T9 that I still see some people using (probably to have bigger letter targets).

A touch screen really ease custom input methods!


> or Japanese kana

12-key kana flick input is my favorite input method for use on a touchscreen. Pretty fast and accurate.

Here's a video showing how it's used: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V2B9dgjbQxk

For Chinese, most people in Taiwan use zhuyin which would be difficult on this keyboard without any labels.

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