I have tried a few private keyboards, but none of them had the possibility to have one layout (Qwerty) with two correction languages (English and French). Any suggestions?

    • windlas@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Have they added spell check yet? I love it, but I need a keyboard that can spellchwck and autocorrect…

      I’m leaving that typo in there to make my point.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I guess not: there is a big red box in the settings saying “Suggestions (except autofill) are not available in this release”.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        When I enable the spellchecker systemwide, it says “unknown / null” in the spellchecker settings. So I’m guessing not. I never use any spellchecker myself so I wouldn’t know if there is something else to install.

  • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    AnySoftKeyboard is flexible enough for bilingual (or trilingual or +) use. For qwerty with french, you have to choose Canadian French 🤷

    i installed open board for a monolingual friend who uses azerty

    • Chestrade@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I tried that one. You have to manually switch between the languages to get the corresponding autocorrect. I need a multilingual qwerty keyboard

          • noodlejetski@geddit.socialEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            yeah, ASK has got tons of little QoL features that it doesn’t advertise anywhere and you just randomly stumble across. I’ve been using it for several years before someone told me about merging dictionaries.

  • parpol@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I usually just change keyboard altogether when switching between languages. for example, japanese is so different from English that the same keyboard wouldn’t even make sense.

    I am looking for a FOSS keyboard that supports typing by finger swiping though, as that’s the only comfortable way to type for me, but so far I haven’t found any. If anyone has any suggestions, I’d love to hear them.

      • parpol@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thanks, I tried them out just now. Florisboard doesn’t seem to have typing by swiping but AnySoftKeyboard definitely does, so I’ll use it for now. A tiny bit buggy but i reckon it will improve with time since it is currently experimental. (It was called gesture-typing in AnySoftKeyboard)

    • MarisaFan189@burggit.moeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      How good is the autocorrect on it? I tried it a while back and it was very very bad compared to Gboard, so I had to switch back? Has it improved at all these days (past year), or is there perhaps some way to improve it? That’s the only thing keeping me on Gboard.

  • doguinho123@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Im using now florisboard, its beta now and correction is experimental, but its seen to be very well made and its FOSS

    • dillydogg@lemmy.oneEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I want to like florisboard but it is lacking so much. For example, of I want to use gesture typing, I can’t have it capitalize the word “I”. I have tried switching to the beta multiple times, but never last more than a few hours because of small things like that.

    • merde alors@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      what do you mean by “thumb-key”? when i search, i see custom hardware keyboards

      edit 1 found it: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

      i have to read more about this, and try for some time to learn

      edit 2 it’s so awkward to use. Do you use only one thumb or both? Where are the predictions?

      passing from 10 fingers to 2 is already a handicap. sometimes i put my screen on a surface to use the keyboard like a ‘real’ keyboard with 10 fingers. a thumb-key is torture for me 😬

      how is your speed with this layout? did you test it?

      • yessikg@lemmy.filmEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Hello, typing this from my backup account. 1 or 2 thumbs, I do two thumbs. There are no predictions. I’m a very slow regardless of the keyboard lol so I didn’t test speed