Finnish '-å layout' autocomplete problems

[salski]

Hi,

The Finnish 'reduced layout' (the one with no å key, and ä & ö combined to a single key) fails with to complete 'ö'-letter if it is typed with an 'ä'.

Example hopefully clarifies this behaviour:
Not correct: Type 'Äljy', Expected suggested auto-completion: 'Öljy', Actual: 'väljyyttä' [the keyboard does not try find completions with the replace(word,ä,ö)]
Correct: Type 'Ölj', Expected suggested auto-completion: 'Öljy', Actual: 'Öljy'

One would assume that if two buttons are combined in a single key (like ä & ö are) they should be interchangeable when using autocompletion. This would allow much faster typing without cluttering the keyboard with to two separate buttons for ä and ö.

[cyril]

Hello

One would assume that if two buttons are combined in a single key (like ä & ö are) they should be interchangeable when using autocompletion. This would allow much faster typing without cluttering the keyboard with to two separate buttons for ä and ö.

I understand your point but this is a false assumption. Grouping ä and ö in the same key was just a layout trick, but the prediction algorithm doesn't take it into account. I may find a solution but at first sight it doesn't seem easy (at least to make a clean fix)

[salski]

OK, thanks for looking into the issue.

As a quick workaround: How about having a layout with ä,ö as separate keys (but no å). In Finnish we almost ever use å.

[cyril]

The goal was to avoid putting 11 keys on a row, which is too much. What would you propose?

[salski]

Maybe putting ä to the top row (in place of å)? (even though it's not like that our keyboards). I'm not sure...