Text Editing Hates You Too
How much is poor text input eroding the use of non-latin script worldwide? I.e. how many just give up instead of using poor input?<p>As an example: I use a Swedish keyboard. If I'm in a situation where ö is missing from the input (because the app is stuck in an en-US keyboard layout say, so I have to hit a modifier ¨+o to type an ö) then there is a very good chance my communication with my colleagues would just naturally be in english instead. I'd sigh and just give up using it. Rather than using an o for my ö I'd just type it in english instead.<p>Is this a thing in e.g. asia, israel, or the arab world? Do kids that speak english communicate more in english in cases where the input doesn't let them communicate easily using their preferred script? Are there new "hybrid" languages popping up in electronic communication where languages that use non-latin scrpit are written in latin in e.g. text messages? (You could argue that emoji is just that but the other way around I suppose)