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ZhongWen web app

This is the source code to the [http://zhongwen.co.uk] mobile web app. It is for practising Mandarin writing and translation and is based on the syllabus from the MECS study program.

This app is built using:

Dev notes

I tried implementing HTML 5 canvas-based stroke input using code from [http://jabtunes.com/notation/chinesestroke.html] but it found the matching algorithm to be too poor for non-trivial characters. You can see how far I got by checking out the canvas_stroke_input branch in the repo.

For now you can input pinyin or mandarin characters directly if you have a Chinese input support installed for your keyboard.

Tested on desktop (Chrome, Firefox) and mobile (iOS, Android).

Blog post: link

License

GNU Affero GPL v3 (see LICENSE.txt).