Sunday, January 22, 2012

Input Confirmation Feature in GeezIME

How to write ክወስድ and ኣርኣያ!
Fitsum Gaim

For languages like Tigrinya and Geez which consist of a few hundred characters in their writing system, it is not possible to assign a unique key on the standard keyboard for each letter of the language. Therefore building an input method editor for such languages requires coming up with a scheme that should pass this limitation, the scheme should take into consideration many qualities from requiring fewer keystrokes, to providing an easy-to-learn key combination.
One such popular scheme used by many input method editors is the phonetic mapping of the English letters to the desired language.
Able GeezIME follows the phonetic mapping scheme, along with some interesting features like input confirmation.