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>I find it considerably faster and easier to input hànzì on a smartphone than with a physical keyboard As a native Chinese speaker I find the opposite. >when

>I find it considerably faster and easier to input hànzì on a smartphone than with a physical keyboard As a native Chinese speaker I find the opposite. >when the hànzì are presented directly above the on-screen keyboard It's basically the same for most of "proper" PC IME. They start to appear when you're typing pinyin, and then you choose with numbers or space (for first one). Showcase: https://i.imgur.com/gQGKw11.gif https://i.imgur.com/gQGKw11.gif So, IMHO there is no obvious advantage that smartphone's IME has over PC's here. And the speed of typing on physical keyboards beats smartphone by a mile, overally speaking. --- However, I DO found that most of Japanese (which I'm a second-language user) IME on PC I tried having the problem that, you have to press some key (normally `enter` or `space`) to start "convert", and even another input to start choose between candidates, which is very tedious because you have to keep pressing `space` which IMO shouldn't be necessary (Note: It was how most Chinese IME (Like Zhineng ABC) worked 10 years ago, but they got rid of redundant inputs later.) Showcase (MS JP input, I knew it's not the best, so feel free to let me know how other IME function in these scenarios!): https://i.imgur.com/hwml1Sf.gif https://i.imgur.com/hwml1Sf.gif Notice that I have to press space once first to enter "convert mode" (which breaks down your inputs to groups), and then press space again (for the first group) to make the candidates appear. I really don't get why it can't be like the Chinese IME.

cthalupa 8y ago
>you have to press some key (normally `enter` or `space`) to start "convert", and even another input to start choose between candidates This doesn't match my experience, and I just double checked on Windows 10 and OSX 10.13 - I do not believe this experience has changed in at least the past 7-8 years. I switch to Japanese hiragana input, and type 'sake', and 酒 appears as soon as I hit space or escape. I do not hit space or escape or anything prior to typing 'sake'. If I type 'yoroshikuonegaishimasu'　and hit space/escape/enter it becomes 宜しくお願いします, properly converting hirigana to kanji where it should. I am using the default IMEs that come with Windows and OSX.
- fireattack 8y ago
  I believe I was not clear, but your description is exactly what I said. * You type in "sake" * Press space once, it becomes "酒" * If you want to choose OTHER candidates (such as "鮭"), you have to press space again to show the numbered candidate list. Please see this showcase: https://i.imgur.com/rXxjMRs.gif https://i.imgur.com/rXxjMRs.gif >I do not hit space or escape or anything prior to typing 'sake' I don't mean you need to hit anything prior to typing Romajis. But you need to hit it twice afterwards to get the numbered candidate list. To be fair, on Win10's default IME, it does provide a predicted suggestion list before you press any spaces, which is nice; but for some reason this list is different from the formal candidate list, that it is not numbered and you have to hitting tabs repeatedly to choose from them:

cthalupa 8y ago

>you have to press some key (normally `enter` or `space`) to start "convert", and even another input to start choose between candidates This doesn't match my experience, and I just double checked on Windows 10 and OSX 10.13 - I do not believe this experience has changed in at least the past 7-8 years. I switch to Japanese hiragana input, and type 'sake', and 酒 appears as soon as I hit space or escape. I do not hit space or escape or anything prior to typing 'sake'. If I type 'yoroshikuonegaishimasu'　and hit space/escape/enter it becomes 宜しくお願いします, properly converting hirigana to kanji where it should. I am using the default IMEs that come with Windows and OSX.

fireattack 8y ago
I believe I was not clear, but your description is exactly what I said. * You type in "sake" * Press space once, it becomes "酒" * If you want to choose OTHER candidates (such as "鮭"), you have to press space again to show the numbered candidate list. Please see this showcase: https://i.imgur.com/rXxjMRs.gif https://i.imgur.com/rXxjMRs.gif >I do not hit space or escape or anything prior to typing 'sake' I don't mean you need to hit anything prior to typing Romajis. But you need to hit it twice afterwards to get the numbered candidate list. To be fair, on Win10's default IME, it does provide a predicted suggestion list before you press any spaces, which is nice; but for some reason this list is different from the formal candidate list, that it is not numbered and you have to hitting tabs repeatedly to choose from them: