For more on the topic of tyewriters in non-alphabetic languages, I recommend The Chinese Typewriter (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chinese-typewriter) from MIT Press.
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Came to the comments to recommend this as well! Fantastic read.
+1, and I’m eagerly awaiting Mullaney’s follow-on (in progress) about post-typewriter text entry.
An odd but interesting related book is Unger’s _Fifth Generation Fallacy_. If you ignore the dubious framing about 1980s Japanese AI, there’s a long discussion of kanji text entry (including computer text entry) with some kanji-specific references that _Chinese Typewriter_ necessarily skips.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!