input methods for smartphones

[Tom Honeyman]

Hi Bill,

There are a number of different platforms - Symbian, iOS, Android,  
Windows Mobile are some of the main ones. Each one has a different  
infrastructure. You'd have a lot of programming to do.

It'd be a hack, but maybe an implementation in HTML5 might work?  
Pretty much all smart phones have web browser support. Many have  
cut'n'paste support. But then I have no idea about getting custom  
fonts onto these phones. There appears to be a block in unicode for  
these scripts, but I imagine the fonts installed on these phones would  
not support these less common blocks.

Cheers,

Tom

On 23/02/2011, at 10:29 AM, Bill Poser wrote:

> Jen,
>
> Thanks. As it happens I know Japanese and am familiar with those  
> sorts of input methods. I've also created them for Carrier  
> "syllabics". What most people prefer is the equivalent of typing in  
> romaji - they use the roman system that most people who are now  
> literate know and let the software transliterate that into syllabics.
>
> What I am trying to find out is what the infrastructure is. Is there  
> a common infrastructure or does each manufacturer have its own? Are  
> they table driven or does one have to hand-code software? If table- 
> driven, what is the format of the tables?
>
> Bill
>