[SHR] illume predictive keyboard is too slow

[Olof Sjobergh]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Helge Hafting <helge.hafting at hist.no> wrote:
> I see. This is done to avoid needing a few extra keys for accents and
> umlauts? Won't that create problems for languages where two words differ
> only in accents?  In Norwegian, there are many such pairs. Examples:
> for/fôr, tå/ta, dør/dor,...

Yes, that's a problem I ran into with Swedish as well. We have for
example har/här/hår etc. But with a good dictionary it actually works
ok, if not optimally. For these words you have to select the one you
want from the matches which is a little annoying but not a total
show-stopper.

To fix it, either you would need different normalisation tables for
each language, or a new dictionary format. Raster said in an earlier
mail on the list that he'd fix it someday but had a lot of other stuff
to look at now. So I guess we have to be patient for now.

Best regards,

Olof Sjobergh