dear Mr Mak,
i have read your very nice article in the TA KUNG PAO dated 7th august, 98, from which i come to know that you have improved the changjei input method. also i greatly appreciate your point of view and particularly i quite agree with you that most users strongly wish to learn changjei input method and they are usually not the professional typists nor they require to type chinese daily. as such, your improved changjei quick input method will surely meet the needs of many embarrassing new users.
in fact and frankly speaking, over the past five months, i have been reading a book of the changjei input method but up to now, i still can not fully understand such input method most probably due to: A. I do not have much time to practice. B. The input method itself has too much repetitions and or require much hard memory of different input ways of even the very simple and daily using words. C. However, I still force myself to continue to study such input method which I also doubt very much that other learners will have such strong will and determination to study the input method or they will finally give up study or forget it all when they have stopped using the input method for a short period of time.
view above, I still encounter much problems of the input method and I have to use english to write to you after I have visited and read your homepages fully yesterday.
from the text of your homepage articles, it's amazing and exciting to
know your changjei quick input method is so simple, direct and come to
the point. Though I have not yet started to try your quick input method,
I am sure, by using your new method, I can familiarize chinese typing
very easily without any further old troubles.
meantime, if you have any further helpful and detailed information or advice in hand, kindly spare your valuable time to e-mail the same to me, in Chinese, enabling me to study your new method more deeply, clearly and easily.
further, my computer is windows 95 (English) plus software (disk) windows 3.1 chinese, please advise if your Changjei quick input method is already included inside or do i need to buy another sofeware of your Changjei quick input method ?
finally, I admire very much of your new input improvement and hope that you will, in a not distant future, create a more simpler and advanced Changjei input method that even the children can learn it very easily because our new generation will play a very important role in the world.
thanks and best regards
p.s. I have sent you this E-Mail for total three times (including this
time). The last two E-Mails might probably not reach you due I used disk
to store/save my letter and e-mailed you by using the disk. It now seems
that the last two despatches had problem. Kindly excuse becuase I am
only the new hand/beginner and do not know quite well of the computer
operation.
in case your Changjei quick input method needs download into my computer, please tell me how to use download method.
again thank you for your kind understand and assistance.
c.n. cheng (Mr.)
cncheng@netvigator.com
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Catherine Cheng:
多謝您的來信。很高興有人這樣關心中文輸入法的發展。從您的來信中，我知道您已盡了很大的努力，並且用了不少的時間，可惜至今仍然不能使用中文輸入法和我溝通。為甚麼呢？
根據您的意見，認為您練習不夠，同時覺得倉頡輸入法很難學習，且很易忘記，致使您至今還不能成功習得這個輸入法。
事實上，我總覺得您由始至今，都未曾真正明白倉頡輸入法的編碼原理。您雖然花了不少時間「自學」倉頡輸入法，很不幸，由於您以為靠「自學」便可習得這個輸入法，用了一些不正確的方法，致使您未能在學習倉頡輸入法取得成功。
我認為對於完全沒有中文輸入法知識的人來說，即使他很有學識，但是學習倉頡輸入法仍然十分困難的。原因如下：
在我的網頁上，我已設有「自學課程」，好讓有興趣中文輸入法的網友能自學成功。很可惜，由於時間所限，網頁內的「自學課程」並不多，初學者仍然未能夠從這麼少的課程得到好處。日後，我定當加添網頁，好讓更多中國人受惠。
從您的來信裏，您現在仍用英文視窗95和中文win3.1嗎？若果是的話，我建議您使用中文win3.1 版，因為「快速倉頡輸入法第五代」掛上中文win3.1比較穩定。
您毋須購買這個軟件，因為它已掛在網頁上任人下載。若果您想使用本輸入法，您可走進網頁內的「下載區」，將滑鼠移至「快速倉頡輸入法第五代」上，按一下，便可下載這個輸入法軟體至您的電腦內。下載區內還有「快速倉頡輸入法的文字編碼檔，供使用者參考，希望您也下載看看。
由於檔案是以．zip的形式壓縮的，您須用winzip之類的解壓程式解壓，方可使用。
如下載有困難，不妨告知我，我可以用電郵的方式寄給您的。
我希望您能使用netscape 4.0 觀看本網頁，否則，有些網頁您會發覺是空的，原因是netsacpe 3.0 有bug。
除了網頁內的友站，有位熱心的網友也為本輸入法寫了一個內容很豐富的網頁，您不妨參看這個網頁的內容。
他的網址如下：
http://www.crosswinds.net/hong-kong/~spider/
由於輸入法程式有少許「bug」，我擔心您在使用時會發生困難，若您對使用「快速倉頡輸入法第五代」（簡稱快倉五）任何疑問，歡迎來信批評指導。
麥志洪