benoitryder
commented
2 weeks ago I was thinking of small improvements that should work withoug losing romaji input.
- If input contains Japanese characters, automatically switch to Japanese input.
- If input contains only English characters but there is no results when searching for romaji, switch to English.
- Use a leading
/to force English search.
The first two points should be enough for most searches, and having to search two times (second point) should not slow down the search significantly. With this mode the button would switch between "auto mode" (Japanese by default, fallback to English) and "English mode". I think it's better to not have a list with three items (Japanese / English / auto), because having to touch only once is much nicer.
The third point is not very intuitive but allow "advanced users" to never leave the "auto mode".
Would this proposal fit your needs?
(And thanks! I'm glad it's useful!)
ActionBasto
It would be cool to have an option where typing in English characters automatically searched in English and typing in Kanji or Hiragana/Katakana would automatically search in Japanese. This of course would come at the cost of ローマ字 input, which is why it should be optional.
Great app by the way very fast and useful.