Every language Flikzi types
| Language | How you type | What helps you |
|---|---|---|
| English | QWERTY | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Spanish Español | QWERTY; ñ á é í… come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Portuguese Português (Brasil) · Português (Portugal) | QWERTY; ã ç á é… come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| French Français | QWERTY; é è ê à… come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| German Deutsch | QWERTY; ä ö ü ß come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Italian Italiano | QWERTY; à è é ì… come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Dutch Nederlands | QWERTY; ë é ï è… come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Swedish Svenska | QWERTY; å ä ö come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Danish Dansk | QWERTY; æ ø å come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Norwegian Norsk bokmål | QWERTY; æ ø å come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Finnish Suomi | QWERTY; ä ö come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Polish Polski | QWERTY; ą ć ę ł… come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Turkish Türkçe | QWERTY; ç ğ ı ö… come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Malay Bahasa Melayu | QWERTY | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia | QWERTY | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Vietnamese Tiếng Việt | QWERTY, plain letters; tones and marks come with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Russian Русский | ЙЦУКЕН, twelve keys across; ё comes with the words | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Ukrainian Українська | ЙЦУКЕН with keys for і, ї and є; ґ by holding г | Autocorrect, suggestions, next-word predictions |
| Chinese 简体中文 · 繁體中文 | Pinyin on the QWERTY keys; Traditional is written as in Taiwan | Sentence and word candidates, predictions |
| Japanese 日本語 | Romaji on the QWERTY keys, read as kana | Kana to kanji conversion |
| Korean 한국어 | Two-set (Dubeolsik) keys; flick up for the doubles | Word completions |
The gestures are the same in every language: tap a key, flick it up or down, hold it, and swipe on the space bar. Seventeen Latin-script languages share the QWERTY keys, and their accented letters come with the words: type francais and Flikzi writes français. Chinese and Japanese are typed on the same keys, in pinyin and romaji. Russian and Ukrainian use ЙЦУКЕН, twelve keys across. Korean uses the two-set layout.
Switching
- Choose your languages in Flikzi’s settings. Languages your phone uses start on. The free version types one, picked under Language; with Flikzi Pro, switch on as many as you use under Several languages.
- Flick up on the left of the space bar to move to the next language you have switched on. The space bar shows the one you’re typing in by name: English, Español, Русский, 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어 and so on.
- Flick up and hold to open a picker of every language you’ve switched on. Slide to one and lift.
Autocorrect that knows all your languages
If you mix languages, you don’t want “gracias” treated as a typo. With Flikzi Pro and two or more languages that share keys switched on, autocorrect and suggestions draw on the word lists of all of them. The language you’re typing in comes first, and a language you’ve been using in the last few words moves up too. You choose which ones count under Guess words in, on the Several languages screen.
Chinese and Japanese with English words
In Chinese and Japanese, English words that match the letters you typed show up among the candidates, so a quick “ok” or “meeting” doesn’t need a switch. When the letters can’t be pinyin or romaji, the English word comes first. How pinyin typing works.
What’s still thin
- French and German are typed on QWERTY. There is no AZERTY or QWERTZ layout.
- In Vietnamese a plain syllable can be several words, so Flikzi will sometimes pick the wrong tone. The other words are in the strip.
- Chinese, Japanese and Korean have no autocorrect: each tap types the key it lands on.
- Korean completes words but doesn’t predict the next word.
- Japanese converts as you type but doesn’t predict the next word.
- Not available: zhuyin (bopomofo), Cangjie, handwriting, a kana keyboard, and the settings screen in other languages.
Where the dictionaries come from
Word lists for English and thirteen other languages come from the Android Open Source Project’s LatinIME dictionaries; the others are counted from the Tatoeba sentence collection and, for Malay, Indonesian and Vietnamese, from Leipzig Corpora Collection text. Next-word data is counted from Tatoeba. Pinyin uses the Android Open Source Project’s PinyinIME, Traditional Chinese uses OpenCC’s conversion tables, and Japanese uses the open-source dictionary of Google’s Mozc. All of it ships inside the app and runs on your phone, so nothing you type is sent anywhere. Open-source licences.