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Inconvenience switching between Javanese jv-Latn and Javanese jv-Java
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Description

Background

  • Re: T381169 "as part of a recent cleanup [Nov 2, 2024], the two [ULS] keyboards were moved [from Jawa] [to keyboards] under ꦗꦮ. They should still be available, but now under a different language."
  • ꦗꦮ is the native name for Jawa (Javanese language). The developer split the two scripts into two "languages": jv (jv-Latn) and jv-Java
  • This creates confusion and massive undue inconvenience

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

  • Go to any wiki and choose an input method for Javanese language (Jawa)
  • To type in Javanese Latin, one has to choose "Jawa" from the list of languages, then select the keyboard
  • To type in Javanese script, one has to choose "ꦗꦮ" from the list, then select the keyboard
  • It's not possible to go back and forth between the Javanese Latin and Javanese script keyboards easily, since the keyboards used to be combined under "Jawa" but now split into two "languages"

Users can't find jv-Java by typing "Jawa" in the language list; they have to type "java". It's not natural for our speakers and users to find jv keyboards by typing "Jawa", then ask them to find jv-Java keyboards by typing "Java".

What happens?:

Cross posting: https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/issues/826

After using it quite a while and rather intensively recently (among others, in Javanese Wikisource), I find this change highly inconvenience, mildly annoying, and unnatural to switch between different input method I have to perform multiple clicks on a very small hovering window that always disappear.

What should have happened instead?:

While I understand the intent, I highly doubt the current solution ideal. Here's some suggestion:

A. Combine both languages again. Then users can switch between Latin (let's call it X) )and Javanese script (let's call it Y) again with Ctrl+M

B. Shortcut key to switch between X and Y across different "language" with Ctrl+something (where users could define a list of "favourite input methods" and assign Ctrl+1, Ctrl+2, etc. for each of them)

C. Shortcut key to switch the language between jv and jv-Java with Ctrl+somethingelse, and then Ctrl+M (not ideal, every switch still need to at least several clicks away)

Lastly, both "languages" at least should be discoverable by its endonym: "Jawa", not "java"

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

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