Text Editing Hates You Too

Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by hsivonen on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @03:06PM (#21390877)

Typing Hangul is just like typing Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, etc., text: one alphabetic unit at a time. The only thing a Hangul IME does is it groups the typed jamo into syllables. The grouping is unambiguous, so there's no need for popups or space presses to guide the grouping.

(If there had been the kind of rendering technology that is used for Indic text today back when Korean text processing on computers started, chances are that the syllable grouping would be handled as rendering-time shaping and not as an input-time IME issue.)

Additionally, Korean IMEs have a feature to convert a word into Hanja, but it's something you need to take action to invoke as opposed to Japanese IMEs offering to convert to Kanji by default.

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Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by Izkata on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @05:16PM (#21392132)

> The grouping is unambiguous, so there's no need for popups or space presses to guide the grouping.

...that's the opposite of the comments that triggered my question. Multiple people said space is needed to trigger it, then backspace to remove an erroneously-added space character.

Is the answer that they're using it wrong, and are actually inputting a space directly because the IME already acted for them?

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