Front-end Processor (program)
An input method (or input method editor, commonly abbreviated 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. Using an input method is usually necessary for languages that have more graphemes than there are keys on the keyboard. For instance, on the computer, this allows the user of Latin alphabet, Latin Keyboard layout, keyboards to input Chinese characters, Chinese, Japanese writing system, Japanese, Hangul, Korean and Indic script, Indic characters. On hand-held devices, it enables the user to type on the telephone keypad, numeric keypad to enter Latin alphabet, Latin alphabet characters (or any other alphabet characters) or touch a screen display to input text. On some operating systems, an input method is also used to define the behaviour of the dead keys. Implementations Althou ...
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