Chinese character IT is the information technology for computer processing of Chinese characters. While the English writing system uses a few dozen different characters, Chinese language needs a much larger character set. There are over ten thousand characters in the Xinhua Dictionary.[1] In the Unicode multilingual character set of 149,813 characters, 98,682 (about two-thirds) are Chinese.[2] That means computer processing of Chinese characters is the toughest among other languages.
Chinese faces special issues compared to other languages, including the technology of computer input, internal encoding and output of Chinese characters.[3]