Re:Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages
by rafram on Monday September 02, 2024 @07:14PM
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Really? That’s surprising to me. The Arabic keyboard layout is very simple to learn, and people in the Eastern Arabic-speaking world (Egypt, Jordan, etc.) seem to use it pretty universally. Obviously people write online with the “chat alphabet,” but I’ve never heard of anyone in the Levant actually using it to input Arabic characters.
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Re:Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages
by lifthrasiir on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:46PM
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The existence of direct keyboard layouts doesn't always imply that they would be popular though. I think this happens fairly regularly around the world and the only major exception I'm aware of is Korean where no phonetic input methods were widespread at any moment.
Re:Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages
by the_g0d_f4ther on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:58AM
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It’s also related to the the layout of the first phone’s keyboards, where you had to type up to three times to select a letter ( it also was latin characters only)
Re:Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages
by j16sdiz on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @12:08PM
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Korean is phonetic.
Re:Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages
by lifthrasiir on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @09:08PM
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Not exactly, though. And Japanese kana should be phonetic enough that a direct input method should be used for kana, but the dominant input method there is Romaji, i.e. typing Latin characters to get both kana and kanji. So that is not a defining factor.
Re:Show HN: A modern way to type in African languages
by mtalantikite on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @11:31AM
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Yeah, it's the same in Algeria and Tunisa. I was working with a derja tutor for a while and on day one she gave me the phonetic map like the parent comment pointed out, as it's ubiquitous.