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Myanmar character order

Open Wyclef opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

I've been testing your app with the Myanmar layout and it works great.

There's only one thing I'd like to change (or add an additional Myanmar layout).

When we type Myanmar characters, there's this character "‌ေ" (Code 1031 here: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1000.pdf) that's used often.

We usually type in visual order so we type "‌ေ" before an alphabet. Google's own Gboard app follows this order.

However, with the layout in this app, we have to type the alphabet before "‌ေ" so it's rather inconvenient to retrain our muscle memory since the majority of the Myanmar keyboards support typing "‌ေ" first.

It'd be great if you have a way to allow us to type "‌ေ" first. Thanks!

Wyclef avatar Feb 15 '22 09:02 Wyclef

Another reviewer asked about this back in November. I investigated a bit, and found that there's probably nothing we can do about it in the layout files.

In GoogleKeep on Android I correctly see မေ while on GoogleKeep web on Chrome 95 I see ေမ. These notes on unicode.org anticipate problems with the –e vowel, because the order the characters are typed may differ from the one they are stored in: www.unicode.org/notes/tn11/UTN11_4.pdf The order should be fixed automatically as you type

So please file a bug with Google and link to it back here. I'll star and comment.

calin-darie avatar Feb 15 '22 09:02 calin-darie

Thanks for the explanation. I'll do what you suggested.

Wyclef avatar Feb 15 '22 14:02 Wyclef