Talk:Input method

message: 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 = 
*Chiba = 
*Camera = 
I'm also working on a Javascript "Hiragana to romaji" converter. --Uncle Ed 16:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: 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)

message: On Microsoft Windows, the IME model will eventually be replaced by the Text Services Framework.  Text Services Framework will eventually replace IME on Windows 
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)
thread_title: Removed misleading paragraph

message: 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)
thread_title:  Article-Title Hypenation 

message: I toss up the topics as FYI which is Resolution:  WONTFIX  
with Bugzilla #13065. Please see the problem using IME, Wikipedia talk:Administrators#Request layout change on editing buttons.Thanks. --Namazu-tron (talk) 12:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Trying to reproduce the problem. Shinobu (talk) 00:31, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Failed to reproduce the problem. Everything works as expected; the problem does not exist. Shinobu (talk) 00:32, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I am well aware of the operation of an IME, as I have had to use it myself sporadically. (As an aside, my keyboard didn't come with all the extra keys, but the only one I've ever needed was "toggle conversion" which I mapped to F12, which no application I use seems to use for anything important.) The way you phrased your problem led me to believe that hitting Enter to convert kana to mixed kanji & kana caused the page to save or some similar problem instead of converting. This does not appear to be the case. If your problem is that pressing enter without text to convert saves the page, then I can only say that this is exactly what it should to, as most people prefer it that way and it is consistent with the behaviour of other web forms and application dialog boxes; making Wikipedia behave differently seems a bad idea to me. However, if you still want that functionality, you can write a user script that changes another button to the default or perhaps removes any default action. (I may even be able to provide you with some assistance there, if necessary.) If you desire the behaviour to be changed system-wide, which would seem to be the logical thing to do if you often experience erroneously hitting Enter without text to convert, you can map either "convert" or "enter" to some other key on your keyboard that you don't use for its current purpose. As I see it, this is not a Wikipedia problem, but a global design issue, that may or may not pose a problem to its users. I'm inclined to think that it doesn't, after all if it had done, one might expect the designers of the IME to have changed the keymapping in such a way that it doesn't. Shinobu (talk) 15:31, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconvenience in IME at Wikipedia 

message: Today I wanted to add a word to the dictionary, only to find out that the Part of Speech dropdown was only partly translated. After looking up the terms I posted the result here: User:Gerbrant#IME_Part_of_Speech Maybe it is of some use to you, maybe it isn't. Shinobu (talk) 00:35, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  IME Part of Speech dropdown translation 

message: Are they hardcoded in the OS or is there a way to create a IME for a new language (perhaps in a similar way how new keyboard layouts can be done, like with MKLC ) ? --TiagoTiago (talk) 09:50, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How are IME created?