Why does Wenlin sometimes fail to recognize my handwriting?
Wenlin’s handwriting recognition works well only if you use the standard number of strokes in the standard order (but it does recognize both simplified and full form characters). Then it finds the character whose beginning and ending points for each stroke are closest to what you wrote. If you join strokes together or write them in a non-standard order, it will almost certainly fail, and beep at you rudely or produce the wrong character. This is good for students learning to write new characters: it forces them to use the standard stroke order. For experienced writers, it may be frustrating since most people don’t use exactly the same stroke order. (The User’s Guide section 7.5 describes what we mean by “standard”; the standard has been confirmed by official PRC publications.
Wenlin’s handwriting recognition works well only if you use the standard number of strokes in the standard order (but it does recognize both simplified and full form characters). Then it finds the character whose beginning and ending points for each stroke are closest to what you wrote. If you join strokes together or write them in a non-standard order, it will almost certainly fail, and beep at you rudely or produce the wrong character. This is good for students learning to write new characters: it forces them to use the standard stroke order. For experienced writers, it may be frustrating since most people don’t use exactly the same stroke order.
