Add Indonesian keyboard

[andrewtavis]

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• This issue is about one language, and I've changed the title to reflect this

Language support

What I know about Indonesian grammar is that there are no articles or grammatical gender for nouns, so in those regards Scribe wouldn't be needed for noun genders. Another thing is that verbs don't need to be conjugated, but for past I'm reading that we need to add the words sudah (informal) or telah (formal), so maybe it's at times confusing which one needs to be used.

Another thing that was brought up as being difficult is what the various prefixes and suffixes mean for words. Maybe allowing someone to look up what prefixes/suffixes are in their native language or separating the base word from the prefixes would be helpful 🤔

Something that seems to be hard is the plural of nouns :) Thus the Plural key might be of more use to potential Scribe users :)

Keyboard variants

There likely are variants if the user is used to using AZERTY or QWERTY. It looks to mostly be QWERTY though :)

Contribution

Would be happy to discuss how Scribe could help second language Indonesian learners. We could at the very least do the translate feature.

What's needed

• An Indonesian directory added to Keyboards/LanguageKeyboards that includes a IndonesianKeyboardViewController.swift file
• Indonesian language keyboard values and logic added to IDInterfaceVariables.swift in the above directory
• Indonesian language keyboard commands added to IDCommandVariables.swift in the above directory
• Fine tuning the WDQS queries found in Scribe-Data/src/scribe_data/extract_transform/Indonesian
• Writing formatting Python scripts and adding them to Scribe-Data/scribe_data/extract_transform/Indonesian
• Add Indonesian keyboard specific logic to KeyboardViewController.swift
• Setting up alternate key functions if there are keys that have them that aren't already implemented
• Adding all the formatted JSON to an SQLite database for the keyboard

[andrewtavis]

Keyboard layouts for iPads:

[catreedle]

hi @andrewtavis,
can I work on this? 😊

[andrewtavis]

Can't think of a better person to work on this, @catreedle! 😊 You'd be free to work through the check boxes in the issue description, with a PR per check box being totally ok. We could also work on this a bit with Scribe-Android as well. One thing to note, we're likely not going to be able to add in Indonesian for the next release of iOS and the first release of Scribe-Android, but we can do the ground work here to get it ready. Definitely a good use of our time!

[catreedle]

Adding to the discussion, I'm not sure if adding plural functionality to this will help much. In Indonesian, plural is shown using quantifiers/determiners like

banyak anak = many kids
a few minutes = beberapa menit

or by repeating the words

ikan-ikan = fishes
baju-baju = clothes

But there are also singular words using this pattern:

lumba-lumba = dolphin
kupu-kupu = butterfly

There are also singular words that use this pattern and create a different meaning altogether:

mata = eye/eyes
mata-mata = spy
kuda = horse/s
kuda-kuda = stance / horses

From what I know there's no clear rules/structures to it, so I'm not really sure how it can be implemented into the keyboard.