The feedback of the key strokes appears in one or more areas on the display. A common feature of input methods is that you press a combination of keys to represent a single character or set of characters. This process of composing characters from keystrokes is called pre-editing . Auxiliary Pop-up menus and dialog that allow you to customize the input method appear in the Auxiliary area. You can have multiple Auxiliary areas managed by the input method and independent of the client.
Input methods are responsible for the contents of the input area.
The input method area cannot suggest a placement. Related Information National Language Support Overview for Programming . Understanding Locale Subroutines .