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input

for asian languages like japanese, chinese and korean which have thousands of characters, using a keyboard containing all necessary characters is not practical.

therefore, usually input-methods and conversion-dictionaries are used together with conventional keyboards.

there are many different input methods but from the user point of view, most of them share the following basic characteristics.

there is some key or key-sequence to switch between direct keyboard input (``english-mode'') and input using the input-method (``non-english-mode'').
in ``non-english-mode'', the input-method grabs the keyboard input and handles the conversion into the desired string. when conversion is finished, the result is pasted into the application.
often, the input of a new string starts with the input of phonetics usually with one of the following two methods:
- transliteration using latin characters (for example one types ``k'' plus ``a'' is converted on the fly to か ...)
- input of a native phonetic script (hiragana for japanese, hangul for korean, zhuyin for chinese ...)
after the input of the phonetics, conversion to chinese characters is done by looking up the phonetics in a conversion dictionary. if there are several matches, a list of conversion candidates is displayed and the user selects the correct one.
the user confirms the conversion and the result is pasted into the application.

for an example with some pictures of such a procedure see sections 6.1.3.1 and 6.1.3.2.

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2005-03-09

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