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Chinese here. To be a little picky, phonetics is just one of the several methods to input Chinese. (Pinyin is the dominant one, and yes it is phonetics, other ways uses shapes of the characters and maybe a lot faster, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi_method for example.)

Speaking of input methods I always with there are good English input methods, it will be useful too! For example if user enters "compre" the input methods goes 1. comprehension 2. comprehensive (with an order depending on the conditional probability -- there is some interesting math behind input prediction, and with their help input can be a lot smooth, however I only see it used on phones not computers.)

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>however I only see it used on phones not computers //

IDEs do prediction for input.

OpenOffice used to predict words longer than say 5 characters, IIRC, it might have been back in the Star Office iteration. Come to think of it I write in a widower so little now I've only just realised that this feature might have been disabled as a default (or removed).