** Also affects: ubuntu-keyboard (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Support two languages simultaneously
Status in ubuntu-keyboard:
New
Status in ubuntu-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
(copy-pasted from a post comment) The Sony Android soft keyboard has
an amazing feature: it lets you have more than one language active at
once. When you start writing you will get suggestions from both
languages, but within a few words it will settle on the language you
currently use (though still give you exact matches in the other). If
you start typing in the other language it will again shift to that
language by the third word or so.
This is extraordinary useful. It's a constant irritant to have to
manually switch languages all the time, and this completely eliminates
it.
Example:
* The user has Swedish and English enabled. She starts writing "s t o r", and
the suggestions "stor" (Swedish for "big"), "storage" and "storm" ("storm" in
both Swedish and English) appear. She selects "storm". That's valid for both
languages, so no decision is made.
* Next she writes "eye" which exists only in English. The input notes that
but a single word is too little to go on.
* "is" is a word in both languages, so it doesn't change the language
determination.
* "very" is again English, and now we have two recent votes for English and
none for Swedish, enough to decide.
* She starts typing "l a r", and English "large" comes up as a suggestion,
while Swedish "larvig" (silly) does not.
* She continues to type and actually writes "larvig". Since it's an exact
match, the input will show it even though it uses English as the current
language.
In an ideal world, this would cover Japanese, Chinese and other
non-alphabetic languages as well. They have long used the "present alternatives
while the user types" approach already, and at least for Japanese it is common
to spell out the word in alphabet, and get kana and kanji suggestions (I'm
sorry I don't know the typical way for Chinese, Thai, Korean/Hangul or other
languages).
So one approach for Japanese would be to present the hiragana
transliteration as the sole Japanse option. If the user selects that,
you'd switch to Japanese mode where all suggestions would be japanese
except for the romaji (alphabet) transkription. Selecting that would
again switch back to alphabet mode.
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