Demand for Chinese characters led to 20-bit Unicode, which clearly is impossible for any typewriter like formed character mechanical teleprinter, although dot-matrix printers can print Chinese characters.
IBM obtained a license on IMR's patents in 1953 and in 1955 contracted with IMR to build a developmental system which was able to read constrained hand printed numeric characters if reasonably well formed.
Besides operating the software by tapping or gesturing with the pen, the user can print characters that will be entered and captured as computer text.
He also lead the RAND Tablet Project, a computer system for recognizing hand printed characters using a tablet and stylus.
"For digital components, you can design anything you want, whether it's artificial life or a dishwasher controller, and just like you print characters on a piece of paper, you can print your design," he said.
Mouse may print integers, characters, or string constants, as shown in these examples.
Carlos S. Glidden, an inventor who frequented the machine shop, became interested in the device and suggested that it might be adapted to print alphabetical characters as well.
MyScript technology therefore provides handwriting recognition whatever the writing style used: Isolated characters, hand printed characters, natural handwriting.
When printing fewer characters is desired, GUIDs are sometimes encoded into a base64 or Ascii85 string.
A statement which prints characters on the screen.