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> The "big one" IME for most English users is the Emoji Keyboard accessible with Win+. or Win+; (whichever you prefer). No, API-wise the on-screen keyboard gen

> The "big one" IME for most English users is the Emoji Keyboard accessible with Win+. or Win+; (whichever you prefer). No, API-wise the on-screen keyboard generates keystrokes for emoji (astral keystokes, multiple keystokes for multi-scalar-value emoji) even to an IME-aware app. In contrast, the emoji picker built into the Windows 10 Pinyin IME enters emoji via IME API. > Under Settings > Devices > Typing > Hardware Keyboard you can turn on the IME "Show text suggestions as I type" even on a hardware keyboard in Windows 10, which gives you mobile-style auto-suggestions (you can also turn on mobile-style autocorrect even on a hardware keyboard). Thanks!

WorldMaker 7y ago
The emoji keyboard may not be entirely using the IME API, but it does do some IME-like things even in English. The big thing I'm thinking of is the way it works when you type English words to search the emoji. I think it still most often defaults to passing the keys along to the application as well and replaces it with keyboard keystrokes or selection APIs, but I have seen it sometimes do the IME thing that the text you are typing is shown underlined and not sent to the application. Though in mentioning it, I don't recall the exact combination of app and emoji I was trying to find where I saw that happen or know precisely enough why it would vary in order to reproduce it just now, and maybe that was just a difference between early Insider versions of the emoji keyboard and current operations or something similar that I'm misremembering. That said, even if it isn't using the IME APIs directly in most cases, it's still useful as a teaching tool/analogy tool/example tool to English speakers of what an IME can be like to use, even if a nice-to-have for an English writer versus a necessary required tool for other languages.

WorldMaker 7y ago

The emoji keyboard may not be entirely using the IME API, but it does do some IME-like things even in English. The big thing I'm thinking of is the way it works when you type English words to search the emoji. I think it still most often defaults to passing the keys along to the application as well and replaces it with keyboard keystrokes or selection APIs, but I have seen it sometimes do the IME thing that the text you are typing is shown underlined and not sent to the application. Though in mentioning it, I don't recall the exact combination of app and emoji I was trying to find where I saw that happen or know precisely enough why it would vary in order to reproduce it just now, and maybe that was just a difference between early Insider versions of the emoji keyboard and current operations or something similar that I'm misremembering. That said, even if it isn't using the IME APIs directly in most cases, it's still useful as a teaching tool/analogy tool/example tool to English speakers of what an IME can be like to use, even if a nice-to-have for an English writer versus a necessary required tool for other languages.