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Support for Combined Layouts with Autocorrect for Multilingual Typing #9

Open Bluetinity opened 1 month ago

Bluetinity commented 1 month ago

Language

English + Native language

Description

Hello, I love the keyboard and what it stands for, so far it's been a painless switch from gboard other than one thing. I'm multilingual and switch really often between keyboard layouts. What I liked about gboard is that it allowed me to use an English-Lithuanian layout, but also have autocorrect for both languages at the same time. The autocorrect was not as aggressive as on a separate language-dedicated layout, but it allowed me to type in both languages intermittently without needing to switch layouts. I would like to have this be a possibility on the Futo keyboard too. As in being able to combine two keyboard layouts and dictionaries into a single model.

Complexity

Complexity would perhaps be just the fact that you need to change how aggressive the autocorrect is on a combined layout.

Bluetinity commented 1 month ago

As for now, I can technically type English words on a Lithuanian layout without switching because both languages use Latin characters. I often end up typing out sentences in English, just to notice after that the autocorrect has messed everything up because it's too aggressive.

Polymerkemisten commented 2 weeks ago

Was about to open an issue on this, yes! Swapping languages every time is clunky for bilingual use. As a swe/eng speaker my suggestion is to: 1: allow any language to use any layout 2: draw from both language packs when two languages share a layout. 3: user picks layout that includes all letters (Nordic is english+3 letters)

Worth noting, this solution assumes no similar languages have mutually exclusive lettering. Though english is the most common language to combine with a different "Latin" lettered language id assume,/meaning this might be a non issue.