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Support for Combined Layouts with Autocorrect for Multilingual Typing #9

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Bluetinity opened this issue Sep 10, 2024 · 2 comments
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@Bluetinity
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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.

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

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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
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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.

@dean-futo dean-futo changed the title feature request/ keyboard layout. Support for Combined Layouts with Autocorrect for Multilingual Typing Oct 16, 2024
@dean-futo dean-futo added the Low Priority Get this done when you can label Oct 16, 2024
@dean-futo dean-futo transferred this issue from futo-org/android-keyboard Oct 20, 2024
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