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I can only say about CJK with an example: the web version of Twitter has frequently omitted the last character of CJK messages yet to be committed, and people s

I can only say about CJK with an example: the web version of Twitter has frequently omitted the last character of CJK messages yet to be committed, and people seem to complain a lot but have adapted somehow. I think this is partly why it doesn't get fixed in time---it is frustrating but not a blocker. [1] [1] And when the affected user base is small enough, even larger problem can take a lot to fix. I use a third-party IME that is relatively known among programmers, and early this year Google Chrome began to crash seemingly at random when you type Hangul. I tracked the root cause and I believe it is ultimately Chrome's fault, but I was too busy to file an issue at that time and the IME has adapted to Chrome to avoid triggering the crash next month. I believe Chrome still crashes when older versions of the IME are in use.

hsivonen 7y ago
> I use a third-party IME that is relatively known among programmers, and early this year Google Chrome began to crash seemingly at random when you type Hangul I'm aware that third-party Chinese and Japanese IMEs are a thing, but what user-facing difference does the third-party IME you mention provide in the Hangul context?
- lifthrasiir 7y ago
  Examples: - Support for less-popular or customized keyboard layouts. From time to time popular OSes had a wrong version of supported layouts as well. - Deterministic autocorrection. For example, normally an initial jamo (e.g. ㄱ) should be followed by a medial jamo (e.g. ㅏ) and not vice versa, but many IMEs offer a feature that automatically swaps them. With a carefully designed layout this can catch lots of transposition typos. - Custom candidates for special characters, as Korean IMEs show special characters as candidates when a jamo is being "converted" to Hanja (popularized by MS IME). The IME in question [1] also allows an extremely customizable input system, to the extent that it forms a soft of wholesale DSL for Hangul IMEs. [1] http://moogi.new21.org/en/ngs/index.htm http://moogi.new21.org/en/ngs/index.htm

hsivonen 7y ago

> I use a third-party IME that is relatively known among programmers, and early this year Google Chrome began to crash seemingly at random when you type Hangul I'm aware that third-party Chinese and Japanese IMEs are a thing, but what user-facing difference does the third-party IME you mention provide in the Hangul context?

lifthrasiir 7y ago
Examples: - Support for less-popular or customized keyboard layouts. From time to time popular OSes had a wrong version of supported layouts as well. - Deterministic autocorrection. For example, normally an initial jamo (e.g. ㄱ) should be followed by a medial jamo (e.g. ㅏ) and not vice versa, but many IMEs offer a feature that automatically swaps them. With a carefully designed layout this can catch lots of transposition typos. - Custom candidates for special characters, as Korean IMEs show special characters as candidates when a jamo is being "converted" to Hanja (popularized by MS IME). The IME in question [1] also allows an extremely customizable input system, to the extent that it forms a soft of wholesale DSL for Hangul IMEs. [1] http://moogi.new21.org/en/ngs/index.htm http://moogi.new21.org/en/ngs/index.htm