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Chu Bong-Foo is the inventor of the Tsang-chieh (Cangjie), a widely used Chinese input method. His input method, created in 1976 and given to the public domain in 1982, has sped up the computerization of Chinese society.
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![Demonstration of character generator Mingzhu's capability of generating the characters according to the codes. None of the examples are included in Unicode. The first character is "[飠它]", which is for a kind of soup in Xuzhou. Other characters are never recorded. Mingzhu was modified from Juzhen.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Mingzhu_xiaoziku1.PNG)
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Chu Bong-Foo is the inventor of the Tsang-chieh (Cangjie), a widely used Chinese input method. His input method, created in 1976 and given to the public domain in 1982, has sped up the computerization of Chinese society. Chu spent his childhood in Taiwan, and has worked in Brazil, the United States, Taiwan, Shenzhen and Macau.
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Born 1937 · age 89
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