Consider the following scenario. On a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista, you use a non-English Input Method Editor (IME) in an application that contains edit controls and button controls. For example, you use the Japanese IME. An edit control uses the IME for input context. In this scenario, when you switch the focus between the edit control and a button control, the focus switch occurs very slowly.

This article describes a hotfix rollup package that is available for the Traditional and Simplified Chinese Input Method Editors (IMEs) in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008. This hotfix provides the following features and fixes:

• The ChangJie, Quick, and Phonetic IMEs can now query the input sequence of the Array and DaYi IMEs.
• The Array and DaYi IMEs can now query the input sequence of one another, in addition to the input sequence of the ChangJie, Quick, and Phonetic IMEs.
• The QuanPin, ShuangPin, and ZhengMa IMEs can now query the input sequence of one another.
• The Array, Dayi, QuanPin, ShuangPin, and ZhengMa IMEs now have options to disable the associate phrase.
• Multiple UI and behavior problems for the Array, Dayi, QuanPin, ShuangPin, and ZhengMa IMEs have been fixed.
• The ConIme.exe process no longer crashes when the Command Prompt window is wider than 160 characters.

Consider the following scenario:

• You are running a Windows Vista-based computer that includes Windows Media Center.
• You connect the computer to a secure wireless network.
• You install a non-English-language Input Method Editor (IME), and then you set this as the default IME.

When you start Windows Media Center and then try to join the secure wireless network, you are prompted to enter your Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) key. However, when you use either the keyboard or the remote control to enter any numeric character in the WEP box, the default IME setting is triggered. Therefore, you cannot continue entering the WEP, and you cannot connect to the secure wireless network.

Input Method Editor: A component that allows computer users to enter characters and symbols not found on their keyboard.

This article describes an update package for Japanese Input Method Editor (IME) in Windows Vista. This package uses the postal code information that was released in September 2007 to update the Japanese postal code dictionary. The update information is based on data that is published by Japan Post and by the Ministry of Public Management in Japan.

Consider the following scenario:

• On a Windows Vista-based computer, you set the Default input language setting to Chinese (PRC) - Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard.
• On this same computer, you start a .NET WinForm application. Then, you set the focus to a text box in the application.
• You switch the Input Method Editor (IME) to Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME, and then you set the IME Conversion Mode to full-shape mode.
• You switch the focus to another application, and then you return the focus to the text box.

In this scenario, the IME Conversion Mode is unexpectedly changed to half-shape mode.

Note: This issue occurs only the first time that you switch the focus. If the application continues running, the IME status is maintained as expected.

Consider the following scenario:

• You have the 2007 Microsoft Office system installed on a computer that is running the Korean or Japanese version of Windows Vista.
• You try to insert a chart in a 2007 Office document. For example, you try to do this in a Microsoft Office Word 2007 document.

In this scenario, Microsoft Office Excel 2007 starts automatically. When you exit Excel 2007 and return to the original program, the Input Method Editor (IME) language bar disappears. Therefore, you cannot input anything other than English-language characters.

You develop an application that uses the following two Text Services Framework (TSF) compartments to query the conversion mode and the sentence mode of an Input Method Editor (IME) on a Windows Vista-based computer:

• GUID_COMPARTMENT_KEYBOARD_INPUTMODE_CONVERSION
• GUID_COMPARTMENT_KEYBOARD_INPUTMODE_SENTENCE

This application returns incorrect values for the two modes if the version of the IME is 6.0. For example, the application returns the following values:

• DaYi 6.0
• Array 6.0
• ZhengMa 6.0
• QuanPin 6.0
• ShuangPin 6.0

When you use the Chinese Traditional DaYi (version 6.0) Input Method Editor (IME) or the Chinese Traditional Array (version 6.0) IME on a Windows Vista-based computer, you may experience the following issues:

• The associate phrase window will not automatically disappear after you switch the focus among the windows of a multi-window application, such as Microsoft Outlook.
• Redundant spaces appear before the characters that you type if you type the initial character immediately after a region boundary.
• The IME candidate window for symbols does not jump to the next page of the candidate list after you press the SPACEBAR. Therefore, you have to press PAGE DOWN to make the window jump to the next page.

Consider the following scenario:

• You install Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME) for the Japanese language on a Windows Vista-based computer.
• You add some user-defined words to the Microsoft IME user dictionary.
• Protected mode is enabled in Windows Internet Explorer 7.

In this scenario, you cannot enter the user-defined words in Internet Explorer 7 by using Microsoft IME.

Note: This problem occurs only in Internet Explorer 7. The user-defined words that are added to the user dictionary can be entered correctly in most programs. For example, the user-defined words can be entered in Notepad.