We are excited to announce that we are adding support for Input Method Editor on MacOS, including the support for (but not limited to) the following languages:
Japanese
Spanish
Simplified Chinese
Korean
The change will be gradually rolled out starting this week. If you encounter any issues, feel free to comment under this post or submit a bug report.
Because “adding native Linux support” isn’t such a simple thing to be done without compromising their security goals, and this is an accessibility barrier for people who speak other languages. It has little do with “supporting Apple.”
An IME – “input method editor” – lets you use a standard QWERTY keyboard to compose text in languages that would otherwise be impossible to write using a standard keyboard. Specific sequences of inputs/characters get transformed into a symbol in another language.
If you were asking what the sentences typed in the search box meant, they’re just simple phrases.
If I remember correctly, this feature was initially added in v588 and was reverted after it was noticed that pressing the escape key while focused on any text field exits fullscreen, or plays the alert sound if not in fullscreen (mentioned here). The un-fullscreen issue is back again with the latest release.
I’ve taken a good look at the native text editor and while I think it’s a step in the right direction there’s a bug I do want to note when using the emoji keyboard since apparently the emoji keyboard unfocuses the text and results in the emoji keyboard not working as intended.
