於 Jul 13, 2004 10:57 PM 時，Peter Constable 提到：

> An input method is, well, a method for input of data. Pretty simple,
> eh?
> An input method might be a keyboard layout, OCR, voice recognition,
> handwriting recognition... Most of the time, we're interested in
> keyboard input methods.
>
> An IME is simply a particular type of (usually keyboard) input method.
>

Note, BTW, that this is Microsoft's terminology and isn't universal.
FWIW, Apple uses "input method" to refer to what MS calls an "input
method editor."

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