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Input Confirmation Feature in GeezIME

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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.

Eri Lingual Solutions

Eri Lingual Solutions is a special interest group of software developers, aimed at delivering high-quality solutions related to the Eritrean languages, mainly the Ge'ez based ones. 

This group made its initial release of some products to the public on November 5, 2011, the release included:

• Able GeezIME - A Geez Input Method Editor,
• New Geez fonts - Geez Able and Erina Alpha,
• Tigrinya on screen keyboard - Tosk,
• Eritrean Sign Language typeface - EriSL,
• Eritrean Sign Language on-screen keyboard - EriSLosk

These products have been made available free of cost, free of ads, and with the right to freely distribute and share them among users. You may download the programs and check them out for yourself.

Download a lite version of the release, which includes the Input method editor, new fonts, and Tigrinya on-screen keyboard, GeezIME Lite.

A number of other solutions are also under construction and will be made available here with time.

Updates on existing products and news on new releases will be posted here in this blog.

Any feedback or questions are welcome, use this blog or email them straight to info@geezlab.com.