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Is there an application that guesses what language you are typing in and switches the keyboard layout automatically? The idea is that you may start typing in, say, German in any text editor, the application guesses that what you are typing makes more sense in, say, English, so it switches the keyboard layout to English and corrects what you had mistyped.

That's good for lazy typing but more importantly it helps with those annoying moments where you realise that 3–4 words you've just typed are in the wrong language, so you have to delete them, switch layout and start again.

Keyboard Switcher supports only three languages and Key Switcher disappeared.

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[-] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I found keyboard layout switching to be too much friction.

I am programming in English and writing in English and German. What I use now is the UK international layout with dead keys. Plus compose key bindings for less frequently used symbols like € or °. This allows me to keep the same layout everywhere, which makes my life easier - and typing faster.

[-] Stopwatch1986@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

That's true with Latin based alphabets and in certain scenarios. It's probably not a coincidence that the application I mentioned supports only 3 layouts: English, Russian, Hebrew. And I would imagine typing a lot of text in German would be more efficient with the German layout.

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