I stumbled across this paper analyzing different kinds of data collected by two most popular Android keyboard apps: Gboard and Swiftkey, as well as FOSS AnySoftKeyboard.

Peter1986C
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67 monatoj

So, this made me install and enable anysoftkeyboard. Let’s see whether it functionally does what it needs to as well.

@noodlejetski
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67 monatoj

it’s been my keyboard of choice for the past… six years, maybe? the settings are a mess, but once I set everything up it’s been working great for me. as far as I can tell it’s the only FOSS keyboard app that does multilingual autocorrect without having to manually switch between dictionaries.

Peter1986C
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27 monatoj

I am currently typing on it. In English it is fine thus far (even on Dutch QWERTY instead of English default), but I still have to test Dutch.

@hfkldjbuq
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17 monatoj

Where is that option for multilingual autocorrect?

@noodlejetski
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37 monatoj

long press the Enter button, choose “Override default dictionary”, and merge the dictionaries you want to use together.

@hfkldjbuq
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37 monatoj

thank you very much!!

olbaidiablo
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67 monatoj

TIL that multilingual autocorrect exists.

@noodlejetski
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17 monatoj

like, as an option in ASK or in general?

olbaidiablo
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37 monatoj

As any kind of option. I’m French Canadian and I speak German, so it would be super awesome if I didn’t get autocorrected on words that exist in other languages.

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