Hi! I just looked at all of the international keyboards on the iPhone, and this’ll be a thread about them. (It’ll get super nerdy.)
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(I’m not an expert, so please please correct me if I’m interpreting something wrong – or missing important things, also on Android.)
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Some international keyboards make small modifications – AZERTY, QWERTZ, extra diacritics, etc.pic.twitter.com/xhP7iX6YIB
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(Note: There’s recent evidence that AZERTY and QWERTZ were very intentional, even if they look just like lazily modified QWERTY.)
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For those with a few more diacritics (e.g. Czech), an option is to add a dead key to help put together more letters than keys.pic.twitter.com/MdgV2y1T42
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That idea is taken a bit further for scripts that combine letters more extensively, e.g. Bengali (the world’s 5th most used writing system.)pic.twitter.com/voT6wn0Zrx
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Bengali is also a good reminder that not all digits look the same (here, 4 looks like Arabic 8, and only 0 might look familiar outside).pic.twitter.com/04hM0oR2px
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This is not the mechanical world of typewriters, so Finnish can add one more column, making the keys a bit narrower. Turkish adds two!pic.twitter.com/sNFB8dq7QA
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I agree. I tried to type and I was always a bit off.
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