Kotoeri

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Kotoeri (ことえり or 言選り), formerly Turbo Japanese Input Method or TurboJIP, was an marketed by Apple Computer to support Japanese characters in classic Mac OS and early versions of Mac OS X for Macintosh computers sold in Japan.
==History==
KanjiTalk, a version of classic Mac OS, was originally developed by Apple’s Pacific division, led by Dave Kleinberg with Mark Davis and Ken Krugler as its software architects. It was released with the Japanese version of the Macintosh Plus in May 1986.Dave Kleinberg RIP by Ken Krugler, Ken's Techno Tidbits. 2012-04-11.Macintosh Plus J-model 漢字Talk1.0 KanjiTalk1.0 by furui_ringo, Instagram. 2019. Krugler then left Apple to found TransPac Software, which developed KanjiTalk 2.0 for Apple. Released in February 1988, KanjiTalk 2.0 introduced TurboJIP as its input method.A Brief Summary of TransPac Software Projects:, TransPac Software. Archived 1998-01-21.Ken Krugler, TransPac Software. Archived 1997-03-02.
KanjiTalk 7.1 was released in October 1992,漢字Talk 7.1 (Japanese) by 荻窪圭 and 松田純一, Excite Japan. 2007-04-09. Archived 2007-07-13. which introduced WorldScript, co-authored by Mark Davis to unify the encoding of foreign language characters.漢字Talk (Japanese) by 荻窪圭 and 松田純一, Excite Japan. 2006-09-26. Archived 2007-04-09. TurboJIP became Kotoeri, the default input method adopted by KanjiTalk 7.1 and later. KanjiTalk support in a modified version of Mac OS 7.5.2 was used in many Pippin games released in Japan. However, support for added about half of a megabyte to system memory requirements.Pippin Developer Newsletter No. 3-1 (Japanese), Atmark Channel. 1995-10-25. Archived 1998-05-08. Some third-party applications used EGBRIDGE as a Japanese input method instead of Kotoeri.Finder CD-R　その３ (Japanese) by MAISON PiPPiN, GeoCities. Archived 2009-08-05.Finder CD-R　その４ (Japanese) by MAISON PiPPiN, GeoCities. Archived 2009-08-05.
The features of Kotoeri were absorbed into WorldScript's Japanese Language Kit and became a standard part of Mac OS 8.5,A Brief History of Character Codes by Steven J. Searle, originally written 1999, last updated 2004.The Page Of JLK by Du Yuan, GeoCities. Archived 1999-09-22. which was released in 1998.A Brief History of Character Codes by Steven J. Searle, originally written 1999, last updated 2004. WorldScript was superseded by Unicode support, which is integrated into all versions of Mac OS X. Only the Kotoeri input method remained in name, until the release of OS X 10.10 Yosemite. A major bug in the transition was supposedly fixed in version 10.10.2.Command keystrokes, Win vs. Mac by Jet, Rhinoceros Forums. 2015-01.
==References==
==External links==
*Japanese Language Kit: Selecting The Kana Keyboard at Apple (2012-02-20, archived 2012-06-09)
*Using Japanese on a Mac at Japanese for your Mac
* at Wikipedia
Category:KanjiTalk