>I have a user of one of my applications, a text editor type app, that has a
>question I can not answer so I am asking for help. 
>
>He is a japanese user and wants to (I think) put japanese text directly into
>an edit field (I assume he means by copying or drag & drop which my app
>supports) but says he cannot, that he can only put it in by "inline input"
>which I assume means by typing it in one character at a time. He said that a
>programmer friend says that "inline input" can be found in Inside Macintosh.
>My copy (old version) has no such thing. 
>
>I am having trouble understanding his question so I may be way off but are
>there any restrictions for entering japanese characters into an edit field?

inline Input is a means whereby 2 character languges (generally Japanese,
Korean, Chinese etc - as opposed to 1 character languages - most European 
ones)
enter text.

An initial letter is typed, a floating window appears that shows a list
of chars and the user then chooses the correct char from there.
This is then inserted in the text. And so on.
Check for WorldScript (aware) or Inline Input on the HTML IM on the
Apple site - 'cos it may not be in the volumes on this list.

However I'm sure I remember folks on this list having mentionned
working on this...

jonathan


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