After typing the pronunciation of a sentence or sentences, the user presses a key to initiate the conversion of the pronunciation string into the desired Kanji characters. Once initiated, the conversion routine of OS/2 first breaks down the input into several phrases. Then it replaces each phrase with one of candidates which have the same pronunciation. The candidate is extracted from the dictionary file which contains information on correspondences between pronunciations and Kanji characters. The result may be incorrect because there can be several ways to break down a sentence or several DBCS strings with the same pronunciation. The user therefore may have to edit this intermediate result to get the desired Kanji characters.
The conversion routine display intermediate results in the WC_DBE_PECIC control. Your program does not need to update the contents of this control.
Note: This is for fixed-position conversion. Usually the on-the-spot conversion is preferred to the fixed-position conversion because it requires less eye movement. For information about how to support on-the-spot conversion, refer to On-The-Spot Conversion in DBCS PM