afrim-keyboard

I've visited all the links and honestly still don't have the slightest idea what this input method does, or exactly what problem it's trying to solve, or why it's a good solution to the problem. I found the video [1] but it has no audio or explanations at all. I also don't understand why you'd want phonetic input methods, rather than wanting to input your desired character directly. For languages like Chinese I understand because there are thousands of characters, but aren't most or all African writing systems based on small alphabets? I shudder to think of having to learn to input English phonetically. So if you're looking for opinions, my first one is that your pages need to do a better job at explaining what current problems are (with multiple clear examples for each), where current solutions fail (with clear examples of how), and how

This video linked from the HN post is an example, although I did't understand yet how it works. They type on a latin keyboard but get some other symbols in result. https://github.com/pythonbrad/afrim-keyboard/

Similar to other commenters, I am curious to know what is the problem with african languages? Can't you just make a button for each character in the alphabet? (The readme mentions it is a phonetic-based input method, so I assume African languages use alphabets, not some logograms, right?) What is common for African languages that allows solving the problem for all of them together in one software package? (How meaningful, for example, whould be a software package for Eurasian languages?) I watched the video - https://github.com/pythonbrad/afrim-keyboard/ - but don't understand. A latin keyboard is used, but it produces some other characters.

repo for Android keyboard implementation[1] says below, but feels strange this don't seem to be stated anywhere else: ### What african languages (and layouts) are supported ? - Amharic Keyboard - Transliteration - Clafrica Keyboard - Transliteration - Geez Keyboard - Transliteration - Nufi Keyboard (Fe'efe'e) - Transliteration 1: https://github.com/pythonbrad/afrim-keyboard

Hello HN, I'm pythonbrad and a core maintainer of Afrim - an input method engine for African languages. Afrim want to simplify the typing in African languages and also digitalize the African typing systems. Basically, it wants to solve the problems encountered with current solutions: - slow typing - not easily configurable - keyboard layout dependent - constant bugs Additionally, Afrim offers the following features [1]: - Dataset easily customizable - Keyboard layout independent - Auto completion, autocorrection and autosuggestion - Support all sequential codes Technical details [2]: Afrim is written in Rust and his architecture is inspired of RIME. What's next? - Offer an android frontend of the Afrim (in development) [3] - Support more African input methods as possible I would like to have your opinions about this project. I have been w