Re: How about a typology for input methods

--- "John H. Jenkins" <jenkins@...> wrote: >

> ©ó Jul 13, 2004 10:57 PM ®É¡APeter Constable ´£¨ì¡G
>
> > 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."

That's what I was going to ask. Microsoft are pretty
famous for muddling well-known terminology. "Cursor"
and "caret" spring to mind.
It's hardly intuitive either since you don't use one
to "edit an input method" (:

Andrew Dunbar.

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