Use letter combinations to add German umlauts

[adnanhz]

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Description

Since I like to type fast, I usually like to have all the keyboards on my phone in the same QWERTY layout. The fact that the German keyboard here contains extra keys for the umlaut letters makes me type incorrectly due to the keys being displaced.

Given a standard QWERTY keyboard, I prefer to type for example: "Uebung" and have the keyboard automatically convert it to "Übung". I guess this is common if you're familiar with German :)

Contribution

I don't have Swift knowledge but I'll be very happy to dive in!

[andrewtavis]

Hey @adnanhz! Thanks for opening the issue! 😊 As discussed over lunch, we don't have a menu for Scribe yet - the ever important #16 - so as of now this is blocked. With that being said, adding a menu will soon be a priority, and with that we can implement this as well :) Main priority now is #96 in which we're tracking some data issues that require a new data structure.

This is partially the layout and partially the autocorrect feature we were talking about. I think it makes sense to keep them both here as you have it, as with the layout changing the user will inherently need that correction feature :) This feature we'd have to check to make sure that there aren't actual instances of ue, ae and oe in German, as that would prevent the user from typing them with how we do replacement as of now. Maybe that'll have to wait for actual autocorrect in #2.

With all this being said, let's keep in touch on this! Thanks again! 🚀

[andrewtavis]

Hey @adnanhz! We were checking the backlog today and came upon this issue. I checked in on the following:

This feature we'd have to check to make sure that there aren't actual instances of ue, ae and oe in German, as that would prevent the user from typing them with how we do replacement as of now.

There are words that contain these letters where they shouldn't be combined – for instance sauer for sower. Because of this, if we want to do this feature we'd need to either do word by word replacements that would get quite messy and would need to be disabled for Swiss German, or we'd need to implement a full autocorrect in #2. As #2 covers the full autocorrect issue, I'll close this one so work can be focused there :) :)

Hope you're well! Let's grab lunch here soon 😊

[adnanhz]

Hey @adnanhz! We were checking the backlog today and came upon this issue. I checked in on the following:

This feature we'd have to check to make sure that there aren't actual instances of ue, ae and oe in German, as that would prevent the user from typing them with how we do replacement as of now.

There are words that contain these letters where they shouldn't be combined – for instance sauer for sower. Because of this, if we want to do this feature we'd need to either do word by word replacements that would get quite messy and would need to be disabled for Swiss German, or we'd need to implement a full autocorrect in #2. As #2 covers the full autocorrect issue, I'll close this one so work can be focused there :) :)

Hope you're well! Let's grab lunch here soon 😊

Makes sense, thanks Andrew! Sorry for the late reply, it’s one of those times I reply to messages in my head and then realize I didn’t actually do it.

Glad to see progress on the project!

See you hopefully soon :)