Can I send string to IME (Windows) to get translation?

Question

For example (I'm using Korean IME btw) can I get 태우다 from sending "xodnek" (as a string)?

If that isn't possible, can I get 태우다 from it's individual characters ㅌㅐㅇㅜㄷㅏ (which is from the keys "xodnek").

Answer 1

If you are using .NET, the following will work:

var s = "ㅌㅐㅇㅜㄷㅏ";
s = s.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormKC);
// s now contains "태우다"

In native Win32, the corresponding call is NormalizeString:

wchar_t *input = L"ㅌㅐㅇㅜㄷㅏ";
wchar_t output[100];
NormalizeString(NormalizationKC, input, -1, output, 100);

NormalizeString is only available in Windows Vista+. You need the "Microsoft Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Mitigation APIs" installed if you want to use it on XP (why it's in the IDN download, I don't understand...)

Note that neither of these methods actually requires use of the IME - they work regardless of whether you've got the Korean IME installed or not.