At long last, a text input method that brings a Japanese-style Input Method Editor to English:
英語もã‹ã—ã“ã便利ã«å…¥åŠ›ã§ãる｜日本語入力システムATOK 2009 for Mac.
Phonetic, clairvoyant text entry is what makes Japanese mobile phone typing so fast and popular, but there has never really been anything of equivalent sophistication for western languages.
I’m looking forward to seeing ATOK become a multi-lingual text input system–I remember back in 1990 suggesting to Apple’s Developer Technical Support group that they implement this in Kotoeri so that non-Japanese engineers could test for inline input and double-byte compatibility using their native language.
