iPadOS 14 Scribble language support

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IdeallyAidil OP
Created Jun ’20
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Hello there,

Does Scribble on iPadOS 14 support languages other than English? I tried switching to the Korean keyboard and when I write, it tries to convert to the English characters. If not currently, does Apple plan on supporting other languages for Scribble in the future? I think that would be a great addition.

Thank you.
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Frameworks Engineer OP
Apple
Jun ’20
English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Cantonese are supported with Scribble
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naquiroz OP
Oct ’20
Hi, I just want to know if there are any updates on this. Is there a release date for Spanish support? Also, will it ever be multi-language recognition?

Thanks
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Mates90 OP
Oct ’20
I think they will be silent again all the time before they present it again with great pomp
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JoseGomes OP
Nov ’20
What about Portuguese? Such nice feature deserves a more broad audience.
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Msuorange OP
Nov ’20
Would be really great to have dual-language support. I often switch from one language to another.
Or at least have a shortcut gesture to switch the language.
Also, more languages would be nice too..
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JaketheWonderDog OP
Nov ’20
yes, supporting Korean in Scribble would be great. To be honest, I expected this to be included when I bought it... am surprised it’s not.
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Krolladi OP
Dec ’20
It wouldnt even be that difficult, they could add an option to input your own handwriting letter by letter and then it could just stitch them together knowing your handwriting to better understand what you want to write.
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tlowerison OP
Dec ’20
Japanese would also be a great addition and wouldn’t be much of a stretch given it uses Chinese characters!
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Kathleenleen OP
Dec ’20
Thai language also would be great.
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Rifpad OP
Dec ’20
Indonesian also please. I think it would not be so difficult since it has the same alphabet as English.
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sdimitrov OP
Dec ’20
How about Italian, Bulgarian, Russian?

Alphabets in Europe are pretty similar. The linguistic problems must already have been solved by the likes of Google translate. The biggest difficulty must be training the models by hiring 50 people per language to write stuff and then analyzing their writing.

Hell, that must be doable for an enormously rich company like Apple.

But I think they'll instead roll out a few languages on every iOS release... It will take years.
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Dattycake OP
Dec ’20
It doesn't even detect other languages even if using the same alphabet for instance if,, write something in French and the word a has letters, similar to English word then it auto correct to which is annoying.
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Rueolearywalker OP
Dec ’20
Please do this! By switching keyboards then writing in that language it would be an amazing feature especially for language learners
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Mikael_Skogstrom OP
Jan ’21
OCR (optical character recognition) has been around for 50 years and is pretty much the same thing: Catch a pixel representation of a written text and let a computer interpret it to letters and digits. I'm actually surprised that Apple has the guts to release the feature with support for only two languages, since it made me call the Apple Store for a return of the iPencil I had purchased.
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Stefan_F2 OP
Jan ’21
Yes, even my Newton Message Pad can do this in German.
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