CJKV Information Processing, 2nd Edition

Input Techniques

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Keystrokes for common input tasks—JapaneseTable 5-8.

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Japanese ⇒ English

Cmd-space F3 Xfer or C-o l

English ⇒ Japanese

Cmd-space F3 Xfer or C-o C-j

Conversion space or C-c C-w or C-z Xfer or space uppercase

Candidate selection arrows up/down arrows arrows space

Accepting return or enter C-l Nfer or return C-j

As you can clearly see from Table 5-8, the basic input tasks are common among these

various Japanese input methods, but the keystrokes used to invoke them are necessarily

dierent. For Korean input, the keystroke “Shi-space” is usually used to toggle between

English and Korean modes, though Windows uses a dedicated toggle key, and Mac OS X

users Command-space. ese and other input methods are described at the end of this

chapter.

Our discussion will proceed from the most widely used input method to the least widely

used. Since most symbols and kana can be input directly, these discussions focus primar-

ily on the input of ideographs and the problems inherent in that process. Ideographs are

problematic because they number in the thousands or tens of thousands, and thus require

an indirect means of input.

The Conversion Dictionary

While the input method provides the mechanical and algorithmic power behind the abil-

ity to enter CJKV text, it is the conversion dictionary that allows input strings to be con-

verted into ideographs, by ...