Talk:Input method

At Wikipedia, you can use Template:Hiragana or Template:Katakana to enter Japanese kana one at a time. It's tedious, but effective.

Click "edit" to see how the samples below were formed:

• Hiragana MA = User:Ed Poor/hiragana
• Chiba = User:Ed Poor/hiraganaUser:Ed Poor/hiragana
• Camera = Template:KatakanaTemplate:KatakanaTemplate:Katakana

I'm also working on a Javascript "Hiragana to romaji" converter. --Uncle Ed 16:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

---

There are two errors in the Japanese in the screenshot accompanying this article. Surely this is not supposed to be the case? What is writen is <コれわみずです> as opposed to the correct <これはみずです> (the first and third characters being incorrect). Perhaps this image should be replaced?--Printf("Sam") 22:40, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. The author of the screenshot (who, according to his profile, doesn't speak Japanese) probably wrote "Kore" (with a capital K), resulting in コれ. Writing わ when it should be は is a mistake common among begginers. Also, the Mac OS X screenshot is in Dutch... lampi 20:09, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I know. also Japanese people don't really use that character pad to type in.. it's really not reflective of what it really is. 71.128.143.13 07:55, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

The OS X screenshot shows the character palette (which involves searching for each individual character you want to use), rather than the Kotoeri IME (which involves typing the syllables). Is the character palette also considered an IME? —Frungi 02:43, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Similarly, the Win XP screenshot suffers from the same problem. Also, no one would use a floating language bar like that, since it constantly gets in the way (everyone I know puts it in the taskbar, and removes the text along the icons). It has already been noted that these screenshots are misleading in that they could cause the reader to be misinformed of what using an IME is actually like, so I think I'll remove them. Shinobu 02:23, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Removed misleading paragraph

On Microsoft Windows, the IME model will eventually be replaced by the Text Services Framework.

I have removed the above paragraph because it is misleading for non-technical people. And with non-technical I don't mean "bad with computers", but "not into advanced Win32 application programming". Shinobu 02:15, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Article-Title Hypenation

Shouldn't we be hyphenating "input method editor" since "input" and "method" both describe the kind of editor? I.e., it's not the input of a method editor, it's the input method of an editor! :-)

I added a redirect from input-method editor at least. —AltiusBimm 15:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)