Abstract: In accordance with the teaching described herein, systems and methods are provided for intelligent text input. A plurality of text input components may be used to receive text input events from an input device. A text input directing engine may be used to translate a text input event into a platform-independent event. The platform-independent event may include an index value that represents the text input event. A plurality of input methods may be used, with each input method being operable to receive the platform-independent event from the text input directing engine and translate the platform-independent event into one or more input method specific characters based on the index value. The one or more input method specific characters may be displayed on a graphical user interface by one of the text input components.