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Has MS DOS ever been used in a Chinese-speaking country?

Before Windows 95, we used "倚天中文卡" to input, handle and display traditional Chinese in Dos environment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETen_Chinese_System Such a long time ago :)
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Open Software Two-Line Add Pinyin To Characters

I think it's needless to point out that you do realize that [hanzi --> pinyin] is not a straightforward function, because of the ambiguous relation of characters and pronunciation (多音字). Character by ...
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How do Chinese people touch type quickly (English equivalent of ~80WPM)? Is it possible?

The answer: with uncommon texts, I suspect that is impossible. Common words that the statistics engine find are just fine but more complex words are extremely slow. That's just the case. I ...
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Are there any tools for combining multiple radicals into a single character?

The closest thing I can think of 字统 is https://zi.tools. (There's also 字海 http://www.yedict.com which you cannot search Ideographic Description Character sequence and GlyphWiki which I trust much less....
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Best Android keyboard for inserting pinyin, simplified, and traditional characters

I would recommend Google Pinyin which I use everyday: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.inputmethod.pinyin
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Character-component "spelling" software

Well, actually many input tools like Sogou and MSpinyin have already had such functions. I don't know a lot of the database you referred to, but I guess it is the database of China's household ...
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Is there an Android app that pressing on words translates them?

I found the Pleco app manages to do this task using the (free) option Screen Reader: For example, browsing online in a website: If we press on the button , the app recognizes the characters and ...
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Help finding unicode code point for compound character 任鸟?

鵀 is actually an existing character in CJK Unified Ideographs (U+9D40), meaning hoopoe 戴胜鸟. But since it's not frequently used, the corresponding simplified character 𬸊 is in 扩E:2CE0A. There is an ...
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How do online stroke order dictionaries render intermediate stages?

The data on how to draw characters (including stroke order) is freely available via Make Me a Hanzi. The file graphics.txt contains vector graphics files for each character, stroke by stroke. For ...
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Is Siri good for practicing Chinese pronunciation?

The bast way to practice Chinese is talking to native Chinese speaker, but if you don’t have the opportunity, you can try to watch Chinese TV shows. And Siri is not a good choice.
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What tool allows a fast translation from Chinese that is both scaleable and exportable?

There are several ways to look up characters without knowing their pronunciation. In printed dictionaries, you need to identify the character's radical (or at least one of the character's radical ...
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Large List/DB of (Mandarin) Chinese Geographical Names and Entitites (for NER)

After some research into this I found this website: http://docs.bosonnlp.com/ner.html. If you set up an account on their website, you can use their NER functionality (because you need an API Token. I ...
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How can I convert Chinese characters sketched with my mouse, into computerised characters?

There are many online OCR input websites. For example: http://www.yibizi.com/html5/ (neat and fast, without ads, but seems only working inside China) I strongly suggest you install a client software ...
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How to type chinese using an English keyboard?

try to use "Sougou pinyin for Windows(exe)", for Linux use "Sougou pinyin for 32bit Linux(deb)" or "Sougou pinyin for 64bit Linux(deb)" or "Sougou pinyin for Mac OS(dmg)" or "Sougou pinyin for ...
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Invitation for a Chinese writing contest and asking recommendation for software that screens characters

I wrote a simple tool to check whether your writing contains the allowed characters only: https://bettyjj.github.io/limited-characters/ I copied the allowed characters from the contest page you linked ...
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Are there any tools for combining multiple radicals into a single character?

The Chinese Character Wiki has a function called Mutant character builder, which can create things like: You input whatever components you want, and can shift and stretch them, and it gives you the ...
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How do Chinese people touch type quickly (English equivalent of ~80WPM)? Is it possible?

I don't know enough about security to reccommend specific keyboards, but I can help list the ways to type in chinese I know in a rough order of possible cpm (assuming a conversion to characters a ...
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Tool which can convert web pages from Hanzi to either Pinyin or Zhuyin Fuhao

On Android you could try the "Pinyin Web Browser" app in the Play Store (free and no ads), or "Cantonese Web Browser" for Sidney Lau / Yale. Both apps print their romanisation with word-groupings, ...
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Where can I find a downloadable database of English to Chinese words?

I went on a similar search today and found a real gem: ECDICT. It contains a whopping 770K entries! Here are my notes from investigating it: English to Chinese, 770K entries (the biggest besides ...
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Can I type pinyin in Debian Linux?

You can install ibus and ibus-pinyin (there's also google pinyin but I personally prefer ibus-pinyin) or scim. Scim is more the historical software, but ibus is definitely better. You will probably ...
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Best Android keyboard for inserting pinyin, simplified, and traditional characters

Many of the keyboards available have loads of bloatware, ads and require an incredible amount of permissions on your phone. They sometimes come in installed sizes of nearly 100 Megabytes. This is why ...
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Open source Sichuanese TTS (语音合成?)

You're right about the company. It's full name is 科大讯飞. 科大is short for 中国科学技术大学(University of Science and Technology of China),my Alma mater!--this company is founded by several alumni in cooperation ...
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Large List/DB of (Mandarin) Chinese Geographical Names and Entitites (for NER)

外國地名譯名 http://data.gov.tw/node/gov/resource/9441 Taiwan, traditional characters, csv 外国地名译名手册 / Mainland https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%96%E5%9B%BD%E5%9C%B0%E5%90%8D%E8%AF%91%E5%90%8D%E6%89%...
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How can I convert Chinese characters sketched with my mouse, into computerised characters?

You can simply use Google translate input method. They have a handwriting recognition pad. Let's see a screenshot: See how it works in action. (dial down the volume first) Bonus (so you want to ...
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How can I convert Chinese characters sketched with my mouse, into computerised characters?

http://jingyan.baidu.com/article/a17d5285399a948099c8f243.html If your OS is Windows 7, you can use "Tablet PC Input Board".
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Character-component "spelling" software

There certainly have been approaches like the one you described. There's a relatively early prototype by Hobby and Goan (http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb05-2/tb10hobby.pdf) for a Chinese font ...
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Open Software Two-Line Add Pinyin To Characters

Python's pypinyin module does what you want. Check it out at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypinyin. I highly recommend taking Python's antigravity module for a spin as well, it's a real trip.
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Can I use 现代汉语词典 outside of the paper dictionary?

You can buy it as an in-app purchase in the Pleco app. It costs 19.99 USD at the moment. For Android devices and also for iPhone /iPad. Reference: http://www.pleco.com/products/pleco-for-iphone-ipad/...
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