>Do you want to write out like 7 lines on a screen for a character? or just type its 2-4 letter phonetic?...
>The current input stuff is basically like T9 crossed with gmail's autocomplete...
DISCLAIMER: I know nothing about writing Japanese characters. But it was the fact that current methods require typing a phonetic equivalent using an alien character set [ie. Latin] which is then translated back to the desired Japanese character set that seemed so clunky to me.
But I'm imagining it from the point of view if I had to learn the Greek or Cyrillic alphabets and type phonetically in them to have the computer then try and guess what I wanted to write in the Latin alphabet. But maybe for Japanese people brought up on this method of entering text, the Latin alphabet is completely familiar, so this disconnect doesn't happen?
But I'm imagining it from the point of view if I had to learn the Greek or Cyrillic alphabets and type phonetically in them to have the computer then try and guess what I wanted to write in the Latin alphabet. But maybe for Japanese people brought up on this method of entering text, the Latin alphabet is completely familiar, so this disconnect doesn't happen?