1026309 - [Sora]Word prediction & Word correction are not supported for Greek.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Keyboard, defect, P2)

Description

[sync-1]

Firefox OS v1.3
 Mozilla build ID:20140422024003
 
 
 REPRODUCING PROCEDURES:
 Description: 
 In keypad, Word prediction & Word correction are not supported for Greek
 
 
 Customer Impact Statement: 
 Inconvenient for the Greek customer. Very difficult to type. Rather poor impression for a Smartphone
 
 
 Expected Behaviour: 
 Word prediction & Word correction must be supported for Greek

Comment 1

[Jan Jongboom [:janjongboom] (inactive)]

Greek dictionary file is included in 1.3, see https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/v1.3/keyboard/layouts/el.js and https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/v1.3/keyboard/dictionaries/el_wordlist.xml.

Where does this build come from?

Comment 2

[xiupinglong]

(In reply to Jan Jongboom [:janjongboom] (Telenor) from comment #1)
> Greek dictionary file is included in 1.3, see
> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/v1.3/keyboard/layouts/el.js and
> https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/v1.3/keyboard/dictionaries/
> el_wordlist.xml.
> 
> Where does this build come from?

This issue is occur on typing sms. 
When you create a sms with Greek keyboard, you will find Word prediction & Word correction are not supported for Greek.

Comment 3

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Any pointers on where to look for a fix here?

Comment 5

[John Lu [:mnjul][Please NI or I'll miss]]

As far as I can see, the SMS-specific Greek keyboard layout, from bug 914454, uses ASCII-7 uppercase English chars in place of several uppercase Greek chars. For example, ε (uppercase: Ε) in the normal Greek layout [1] becomes E in the SMS layout [2]. As such chars are lexicographically different, naively dropping in the dictionary information (by appending |autoCorrectLanguage: 'el'| at [3]) won't work.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/keyboard/js/layouts/el.js#L26
[2] https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/keyboard/js/layouts/el.js#L58
[3] https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/apps/keyboard/js/layouts/el.js#L51

I think the most "correct" way to fix this (if the original reason of bug 914454 still stands and we want to keep the separate, ASCII-7 chars layout) is to implement a transformation layer in front of the prediction engine that does uppercase-English to uppercase-Greek transformation when transmitting user input to the engine, and the reverse when transmitting prediction results to the list-of-suggestions panel (and subsequently to the SMS field). If that's not applicable then we'll want a second Greek dictionary that uses those uppercase-English chars (which is quite messy if you ask me).

Not sure how much sense this all makes for real use, and how much work it's gonna be, though.

Comment 6

[Wesly Huang (EPM)]

link all Fire C (codename: Sora) bugs to a meta one.

Comment 7

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on