[LeffeBrune]

> Why would I type my native language with a foreign language keyboard? Would you type Russian with an American keyboard?

Yes, I would, and I have been doing this all my life when no Russian layout is available. This is called transliteration, and I would argue most Russian speaking tech users used it at least once in their life.

[creshal]

Emphasis on "when no Russian layout is available". If anyone told you "no, this is the Russian layout", you'd still flip them off.

[jiofih]

Doesn’t seem to be the case here. More like “improved autocomplete for Russian words in the English keyboard”.

[Quiark]

This is probably a bad example. The problem with typing pinyin instead of jyutping is that you must type a very different set of latin characters to get the result you want.

[calyth2018]

And the problem with jyutping is that it's not a standard romanization taught to Hong Kongers. Wasn't the case for sure when I was in school in Colonial Hong Kong. Pretty sure not the case in SAR Hong Kong.

Some of the romanization of Cantonese sounds are baffling. It's a bit like watching English speakers struggle to pronounce the Q sound in Qing (e.g. Qing dynasty).

[samus]

Then they should use a different one. There are at least half a dozen of these, and most of them do not require any symbols not found on most keyboards. Jyutping is actually an outlier among them for how it uses j and z. These are truly not intuitive for people used to the english, french or spanish alphabets.

[calyth2018]

The key thing, IMO, isn't whether they should use a different one. The key thing is to pick one that will be taught to all student, so that it becomes a standard.

Good luck to anyone in the HKSAR government trying to propose that though - it would just be politicized like what the author of the article tried.