Weekly Classic Computer Trivia Question (20150105)

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Chuck Guzis

    > I suspect that other languages have similar exercises, though 
    > I don't know what the Japanese do in Kanji.

Err, think you mean kana, right? (Kanji are the ideograms, there are over a
thousand in common use.) There is something called the 'iroha':

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroha

which is a poem which uses every element of the Japanese syllabary - and
exactly once! It was used to teach writing, no idea if it's used for the
keyboard thingy.

	Noel