Dear all, and especially iPhone owners which are sometime writing in a language NOT supported by the iPhone auto-correction :
I feel I'm arriving much too late for this (after the petition and the 2.2 update), but still I'm interested to see if anyone is having a similar problem and opinion about this:
Auto-correct on/off switch is ..
- NICE TO HAVE when it annoys you even in a supported language (EN, FR, ..)
- MANDATORY when you have to type in an unsupported language (say Croatian e.g.)
My problem is that with the on/off switch placed in the keyboard preferences, I WON'T be able to e.g. easily :
1) Send a message in English with auto-correction ON
2) and then send another one in Croatian with auto-correction OFF.
For that purpose, I'll have to:
1) Exit the application (mail, sms, ..)
2) Go to the keyboard preferences, toggle the switch
3) and go back to the original app.
The result? I'll either :
- Continue to write to my Croatian friends in English (!),
- or stop to use auto-correct for English AND french, even though it suited me.
Either ways are stupid limitations and frustrating trade-offs
With the usual T9 approach in mobile phones though (not talking about their correction algorithm/UI, which I hated in every phone!) : it is within the application that you get to choose whether you want the auto-correction ON or OFF.
That seems much more respectful of users which do input text in many languages.
What do you think?
Anyway, I guess at this point there's no chance for shifting the on/off switch to some new menu for each application using text input. I feel one petition late
I feel I'm arriving much too late for this (after the petition and the 2.2 update), but still I'm interested to see if anyone is having a similar problem and opinion about this:
Auto-correct on/off switch is ..
- NICE TO HAVE when it annoys you even in a supported language (EN, FR, ..)
- MANDATORY when you have to type in an unsupported language (say Croatian e.g.)
My problem is that with the on/off switch placed in the keyboard preferences, I WON'T be able to e.g. easily :
1) Send a message in English with auto-correction ON
2) and then send another one in Croatian with auto-correction OFF.
For that purpose, I'll have to:
1) Exit the application (mail, sms, ..)
2) Go to the keyboard preferences, toggle the switch
3) and go back to the original app.
The result? I'll either :
- Continue to write to my Croatian friends in English (!),
- or stop to use auto-correct for English AND french, even though it suited me.
Either ways are stupid limitations and frustrating trade-offs
With the usual T9 approach in mobile phones though (not talking about their correction algorithm/UI, which I hated in every phone!) : it is within the application that you get to choose whether you want the auto-correction ON or OFF.
That seems much more respectful of users which do input text in many languages.
What do you think?
Anyway, I guess at this point there's no chance for shifting the on/off switch to some new menu for each application using text input. I feel one petition late