[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spaboleo:
Hello everybody,

I am an Android User ever since and something that always bugged me was the bad support of multiple languages.

I saw word prediction and autocorrection, as well as the overall performance improving with every new Android version. But still typing in multiple languages is -- to be honest -- a pain in the a*s on Android devices...even on Jelly Bean! (But I got to admit...the stock Jelly Bean keyboard is quite good and the range of supported languages is impressive!)

When I take a look at the variety of countries XDA users and developers come from I just can't believe that there is no sufficient solution.

Or and this is more likely...I am just to blind to find it ;)

My frequently used languages are:

German

English (US)

Korean

Russian

Spanish

(I greyed out the last ones, because I don't use them as often as the other ones.)

Especially Korean causes problems, because it has no direct integration and the recently updated "Google Korean IME" (Play Store Link) has some really weird issues. They state to have it updated to the ICS UI, but the button order honestly is just confusing.

Please take a look at the attached screenshots.

What's bugging me the most is the inconsitent layout in the "Korean IME".

On the Stock Keyboard the button-order in the downmost row is:

[?123] [,] [(lang-switch)] [space] [.] [search/go/enter]

On the Korean IME, but English Layout it is:

[한굴] [?123] [(voice-input)] [space] [.] [search/go/enter]

On the Korean IME, but Korean Layout it is:

[ABC] [?123] [(voice-input)] [space] [.] [search/go/enter]

On the Korean IME, but Special Character Layout it is:

[(settings)] [한굴] [,] [space] [.] [search/go/enter]

Why isn't the the same order as in the Jelly Bean Keyboard used?

Why can't the settings button be deactivated in the keyboards settings of the Korean IME?

Why does the order of the "back to languages mode" button in the "Special Character Layout" (Korean IME) change from the regular pattern and is completely differing from all the other stock keyboard layouts?

Why are the special characters (alternative pane) in the Korean IME different from the layout in all the other stock keyboard patterns (different set of characters like stars etc.; not even the symbol for "Korean Won" ₩ is on it, neither the circle for degree °)?

Why is the stock keyboard slightly bigger compared to the Korean IME, even though it is supposed to support the new UI?

Why does the english layout of the korean IME use a different autocorrect than the new stock keyboard?

Why does the Korean IME always start up with the English Character-Set shown first (no settings available)? Switching to the Korean IME is in 99% of the use cases done to type with korean characters.

If you are a heavy user in terms of switching fast between multiple languages this gets really annoying, because you very quickly stop taking a look for the buttons and then hit the wrong ones.

And another thing really bugs me as a Mac OS X user...why isn't the language you are typing in autodetected?

I don't really need special keyboards for let's say English/German/Spanish. In the rare occasions I use Spanish I can just select the ñ or other differing characters from the popup. There is no other major difference between the keyboard layouts! And all the other characters are all integrated in the German keyboard (for example) as well...

Why do I have to switch the keyboard all the time? Only for the autocorrect functions?

It makes sense to have a switch for Russian and Korean or all the other languages with non-latin characters, but for the rest? This seems outdated.

Take a look at Mac OS X. The autodetection is done very well and just works.

So XDA...what is your solution to this?

Thank you very much :)

Vielen Dank

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спасибо

gracias