![]() ![]() The IME's role is to act as a middleman between the keyboard and the input fields, so that when we type "sake" it will intercept the keyboard's input, replace "sake" with 酒 or さけ (as chosen by users) and type the native characters for us instead of the keys we pressed. As an example, the Japanese written word for "sake" or "rice wine" is 酒, also written as さけ, and romanized as "sake". Some IMEs do this through a process called romanization, which is the transliteration of non-Latin language sounds into the Latin equivalents that most closely resemble them. In simpler words, an IME is an application that allows us to use Latin characters in order to type non-Latin characters. Using an input method is usually necessary for languages that have more graphemes than there are keys on the keyboard. Note: For the sake of simplicity only the keyboard has been mentioned in the following examples, but an IME can actually work with a number of input sources, such as drawing characters by hand with the mouse or with a Wacom tablet.Īn input method (or input method editor, commonly abbreviated as IME) is an operating system component or program that enables users to generate characters not natively available on their input devices by using sequences of characters (or mouse operations) that are natively available on their input devices. ![]()
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