Re: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish ghayn)

John,

An IME is an input method that is useful for abstracting the entry of 10,000
to 40,000 or more characters in a small interface (20,000-key keyboards are
generally considered to be inefficient).

But an IME causes data entry of non-CJK text to be slower then a keyboard
that covers the same information.

When one is calling it "overkill" it is not only in relation to development
effort to create the IME, it is n the amount of extra work it would require
to actually use it, for no actual, measureable gain.

MichKa

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From: "John M. Fiscella" <profirst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Benson Margulies" <bim2003@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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"Chris Pratley" <chrispr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Thomas Milo"
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Subject: RE: [OT] multilingual support in MS products (was Re: Kurdish
ghayn)


> Message text written by "Benson Margulies"
> >We could build you an IME for Dutch, just like we built one for Arabic.
>
> Overkill, but, then again, much of this recent thread about Klingon
> qualifies as such.
> <
>
> Isn't there a 3rd party "IME kit" that has been available for the past 2
> years that (I know) works with Windows?
>
> John F.
>
>