Text Editing Hates You Too

Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by dfcowell on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @04:56AM (#21385204)

Thanks for the fact check.

Not sure your comment on Vietnamese is accurate though. I work in a company with ~35% native Vietnamese speakers and I’ve seen plenty of multi-syllable words.

Are you talking about traditional Vietnamese (when it still used Chinese characters) or modern Vietnamese (post-French-colonialism) which uses the Latin alphabet with accents?

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Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by gdx on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:10AM (#21385521)

It is accurate, there are spaces between each syllable in modern written Vietnamese, except in foreign words. The syllables can have as many as 7 characters, and you need an IME to type the tone marks. The written language looks like this: https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam

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Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by dfcowell on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @06:53AM (#21385699)

Wow, you’re right.

I never noticed (even while studying the basics myself) that syllables are space-separated.

I always saw the words (e.g. “thanh pho” = city - don’t have the keyboard on my phone) as independent units. Didn’t even recognize the spaces.

Amazing how something can be right in front of you without noticing it.

So much makes sense now. Thanks again.

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Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by hsivonen on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:30AM (#21387537)

> you need an IME to type the tone marks

The standard Vietnamese keyboard layout works without an IME layer. However, apparently most people who write Vietnamese _prefer_ to use an IME.

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