Re: Piktok Pictogram drawing tool for download

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> I don't know if what you mean is exactly what I understand, but Japanese
> word processors do something similar: when someone wants to type a word in
> kanji, they type it first in hiragana (one of their syllabaries, which is
> phonemic) and a window pops up with a choice of kanji (because many
> Japanese homophones are written with different kanji, so you often have to
> choose which one fits the word you mean), and once chosen the kanji
> replaces the hiragana just written.
All this stuff is now migrating from word processors into the operating
system, under the general label of IMEs (Input Method Editors), thus making
it accessible to all applications.  The details differ between Unix, Win32,
and Mac OS, however.

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