The system of keystroke composition sequences required to specify the memebers of a writing system to an application.
A way of entering Chinese characters into a program. This includes ways to use a Western QWERTY keyboard to input the thousands of possible Chinese characters, speech recognition, and handwriting recognition.
A language-specific computer keyboard or a software tool that allows any standard keyboard to inout the characters or ideographs of a language. When the symbols exceed the number of keys as do Asian languages, the software presents a selection of possibilities for clicking with a mouse.
a kind of character conversion designed specifically for interactive input
a mechanism for a person to enter text into an application
an example of a specialized Component that should receive KeyEvents even though its associated text Component is and should remain the focus owner
a set of functions that translates key strokes into character strings in the code set specified by your locale
a software component that converts key presses into text input which can't be typed directly
a way to map keystrokes (most likely several keystrokes on a typical keyboard) to characters
(IM) (n.) The algorithm by which users enter the text of a language. Input methods differ for each language, depending on that language's structure and conventions.
A layer of mapping between the keyboard keys (or combination of keys) that the user types and the text data that is passed to the application.
An input method is a system for entering non-ASCII text characters by typing sequences of ASCII characters (q.v.). See section Q.4 Input Methods.
any mechanism used to enter textual data, such as keyboards, speech recognition or handwriting recognition. The most common form of input method is the keyboard. The term "input method" is intended to include all forms of keyboard handling, including but not limited to input methods that are available for Chinese and other very-large-character-set languages and that are commonly known as input method editors (IMEs). An IME is taken to be a specific type of the more general class of input methods.