Technically it's incredibly complicated, unreliable and crazy it even works at all. The upside is that mobile phones have the same problem space, and Japanese w

Technically it's incredibly complicated, unreliable and crazy it even works at all. The upside is that mobile phones have the same problem space, and Japanese was ready from get go to deal with autocomplete on crammed touchscreens. From a user point of view, you get used to it and it's not so bad after a while. The irritating parts (e.g. having to get back to the middle of your sentence to fix a typo otherwise the surrounding characters are also messed up) are offset by the ease to input emoji, pictograms, or basically any unicode char. you remember the name is a godsend ♡