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OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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I would love it if we could get something like SwiftKey, but actively developed. Its predictions are magic, but lately it has been getting more and more buggy, suggesting words that don't exist, changing already-correct words to nonsense, and refusing to learn.

Try AnySoftKeyboard. Works great and is FOSS.

This looks interesting so far, thank you.

Re: OpenBoard – FOSS Keyboard for Android which respects your privacy

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AnySoftKeyboard on the surface seems cool, however, they've overloaded it with unnecessary characters. When I tried it, I had English selected and yet somehow it has characters that are _never_ used in English. That's not necessarily an issue, but when non-English characters are easier to type than English characters, it decreases my typing speed significantly. I raised an issue about it and was quickly dismissed. I'…

Many people typing in English find it useful to be able to type names, places etc which require foreign characters. "Let's meet at Nørreport, Lærke says she will be late."

Sure, but how often does the average English write/speaker do this?
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