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Yeah, I understand the problem. I feel like all these UI design decisions are mostly due to a lack of recognition that language-use is not binary. Auto-correct
by Phemist 6y ago
Yeah, I understand the problem. I feel like all these UI design decisions are mostly due to a lack of recognition that language-use is not binary. Auto-correct used to be absolutely unusable if you mixed typing in multiple languages on your phone. Now that language toggling is easier it's only really a problem when you mix languages in the same sentence, mixed-language models do not seem to exist (yet?).
So yeah, tourists should not be forced to hear Dutch streetnames in Dutch, just as I shouldnt have to change the language settings of my whole phone to hear them in Dutch.
Several apps using OSM seem to handle the toggling just fine (e.g. Maps.Me), and apparently the cycling experience is superior on OSM anyway. I used it solely for the offline maps, but maybe I might start using it as my main maps provider.
- tracker1 6y agoPredictive text is still pretty bad when trying to use terms not in English for me...
- crazygringo 6y ago> mixed-language models do not seem to exist (yet?) They have since 2016, at least on iOS. [1] I thought it would be a godsend... but I ended up turning it off, because if I type 98% in language A and 2% in language B, it changed words in language A to language B far more often than made up for getting words in language B right. [1] https://www.cultofmac.com/441836/how-to-set-up-multilingual-typing-in-ios-10/ https://www.cultofmac.com/441836/how-to-set-up-multilingual-...