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.
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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.