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/dev/urandom (aka jan Lentan)

@grishka sounds like it could be a useful setting nonetheless.

maybe with a switch that instead checks the ukrainian, belarusian, greek and other relatively static non-latin kbd layouts

23 Jul 2021 at 14:56 | Wall-to-wall | Open on cybre.space
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Gregory

@devurandom that's certainly an option, but would you really convert every string you receive into 20 different keyboard layouts just in case? That could also lead to some mysterious false-positive search results.

23 Jul 2021 at 14:57 | Open on mastodon.social
a1ba-nyan
@grishka @devurandom maybe ask user to list languages they know in settings and then convert? That information could be useful in future.

I'm not insisting on that feature though, just a random idea.
23 Jul 2021 at 15:00 | Open on expired.mentality.rip
/dev/urandom (aka jan Lentan)

@grishka not asking for all searches to be run with every possible layout, but just to add a separate user setting that goes

[✓] Search keyboard layout correction: [ Russian ↓ ]

and then you get to pick whichever layout you commonly use.

this could also be helpful in that searches mistakenly typed in that layout could be converted to english.

23 Jul 2021 at 15:03 | Open on cybre.space
Vftdan

@grishka
May it is a good idea to define distance matrices between alphabets' letters and between keyboard layouts' keys, merge them into something like least cost matrix and use it to modify levenshtein distange algorithm?
@devurandom

23 Jul 2021 at 16:25 | Open on mastodon.ml
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