Unlike the simple 26-letter English alphabet, the Chinese written language combines an artistic beauty of shape with the complex expression of meaning to produce an ideographic script that presents major obstacles to computer engineers.
由於中文構造複雜、每字都是獨特的個體，若要將所有字都存在電腦裡，需佔很大的空間，且以往的技術有困難；不像英文只要有廿六個字母就行了。