Bug 172791

Summary:	Keyboard layout: automatic conversion for wrongly-entered text
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	kspell	Assignee:	Zack Rusin <zack>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	arvidjaar
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dotan Cohen 2008-10-14 12:42:03 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Often users with more than a single keyboard layout enter text in the wrong layout. This commonly occurs to users who are not looking at the screen while typing. Therefore I propose a similar feature for KDE: When the user has focus on a textbox or input field, and then presses a hotkey (for instance F10) then the text changes to another keyboard layout that the user has configured. For instance, typing "יקךךם 'םרךג" and then pressing F10 would change the text to "hello world".

There are some websites that have keyboard-layout replacement features (such as http://gibberish.co.il/english_caps.html which changes English characters to the Hebrew character that is found on the same key) and Windows software (http://www.freeware.co.il/hebrew/) that do the same when the user presses a hotkey.

I am filing the wish against Kspell, as I imagine that it would likely be best handled by the spell-checker component, as it already has the code for parsing and replacing text. Feel free to change the component if there is a better place for it.

Comment 1 Dotan Cohen 2008-10-17 12:03:02 UTC

Here is other Windows software for converting text between equivalent keys on different layouts:
http://www.langover.com/

Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2009-03-20 09:51:37 UTC

Here is a Firefox addon that adds this ability to Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5814

This is a real problem for users of multiple keyboard layouts!