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Allow typing in different languages simultaneously #56

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loxoron218 opened this issue Jul 22, 2024 · 3 comments
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Allow typing in different languages simultaneously #56

loxoron218 opened this issue Jul 22, 2024 · 3 comments
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loxoron218 commented Jul 22, 2024

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Feature description

Would it be possible for the app to allow users to type in different languages simultaneously? Back when I used more proprietary software on my phone, I remember the default Android keyboard that shipped with my phone allowing me to type in up to three different languages and auto-correct/spell-check my words simultaneously.

Why do you want this feature?

I grew up speaking two languages (Spanish and Catalan) and I also need English to browser the internet. Moreover, as a foreigner living in a country that requieres me to use another language that isn't my native one (German) makes me use up to four languages almost daily.

Additional information

As far as I remember, the keyboard I used back then was the official Android keyboard that Google ships with their system by default and looked like this:
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Heliboard solves this issue by allowing to add different languages to a certain keyboard. You can see here they called it multilingual typing:

@loxoron218 loxoron218 added feature request Issue is about a new feature in the app needs triage Issue is not yet ready for PR authors to take up labels Jul 22, 2024
@loxoron218 loxoron218 changed the title Allow to type in different languages simultaneously Allow typing in different languages simultaneously Jul 22, 2024
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luewolf commented Sep 14, 2024

Fossify Keyboard allows you to select multiple keyboard layouts in the settings. You can then quickly change between the selected layouts by clicking the globe icon. Would that work for your use case?

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juxuanu commented Oct 29, 2024

I am in the same situation, Catalan and Spanish, and English online. I switch around layouts, but sometimes my text is mixed with Spanish, Catalan and English words. I'd like to mever have to switch around.

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Fossify Keyboard allows you to select multiple keyboard layouts in the settings. You can then quickly change between the selected layouts by clicking the globe icon. Would that work for your use case?

Technically yes. I could change everyime between languages, but it's not very practical to change every 15 to 30 min between languages to just write a couple of sentences...

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