Does anyone do this and type in multiple languages regularly?
I could see myself getting into it if I only had to bother with a single layout, but since I deal with three different layouts on a daily basis, no way.
I could see myself getting into it if I only had to bother with a single layout, but since I deal with three different layouts on a daily basis, no way.
On Linux and Mac it's no issue to input both using Dvorak.
On Android, however, none of the Chinese input methods support Dvorak so I had to decompile and modify Google Pinyin's APK and rearrange the XML layout files to Dvorak.
https://github.com/dheera/android-googlepinyin-dvorak
I never learned QWERTY, so I'm extremely bad at typing with it even on a phone, regardless of language.
While I can still function on a full-size QWERTY keyboard on account of using them regularly, I almost never pick up someone else's phone, so my thumbs have forgotten it entirely.
I found it hard to switch layouts, I'm using only one with layers. On first layer there are english letters, second layer there are accents (a → á) and some symbols where accent is missing (m → +). On third layer there are arrows on home row and functional keys. Shift without other key is `(`, on second layer `{`. There are some additional keys at the bottom and middle, they cover the rest of symbols. Outliers are mapped to start editor, browser, ctrl+c, ctrl+z, volume, mute, …
I really like having a single layout. I don't like that I'm no longer able to type on QWERTY without looking at keys. On my desktop, I'm 10 % faster, on any other computer I'm 90 % slower. Would I do it again? Probably yes.
Because English and simple ASCII made such a nice team, just wondering, not trying to say anything diabolically odious or even ďábelské ódy
(I was making a macaronic joke, didn't look up the translation of that till after, but it was perfect! "devilish odes")
What you could do is to replace an accent with an ASCII character. Compare the name of town Český Těšín with its Polish equivalent Czeski Cieszyn (Č → Cz, ě → ie, š → sz). Actually, this is how we got here, 600 years ago Jan Hus (John the Goose) added diacritics to shorten a few diagrams in written language.
- Diacritics, for example in German, make writing and reading easier than English and you cannot have ghoti[1]
- Diacritics, is an easy way to avoid di-grams and tri-grams: English has "sh", Czech has "š" (it's not a decoration, it has a true meaning)
- ASCII seems to make a nice team with English because it's an American creation. Should English had some accents that ASCII would have included them, like dollar sign (this is an "S" with a stroke…)[2]
- Languages that could go with out vowels are those where words forms have no ambiguity. In English, "bt" for example is ambiguous because there's "bit", "bat", "but", "boat", etc.
So you are just having a ethnocentric point of view, that's human.
It is annoying that Windows keeps Qwerty for it while Mac uses Dvorak. If it was just consistent (I constantly switch machines) it would be easy to handle and entirely subconscious by now...
But I start typing the wrong layout every time and lose a few seconds mentally reorienting myself.
https://medium.com/@jiayu./how-to-set-your-pinyin-ime-keyboa...
Of course if you want the most efficient (you first have to decide on the factors, and the most efficient combination) layout for each language of the most efficient for the average of each language you can have a nice hobby for a year. I was afraid I'd end up with an esoteric layout and then after a few years find out that there was a better layout and I would learn that one all over again. Instead I decided to stick with DVORAK with an improvement tweak so it would be also more or less be usable on Android en iOS.
For me, moving to a programmable keyboard and using a non-QWERTY keyboard has 100% been worth it