How SmartKey Keeps Two Alphabets Alive Until Context Decides
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The input event does not arrive with a language tag. Press the same two physical keys on a Bulgarian phonetic keyboard and one interpretation is li; the other is ли. Both are plausible prefixes. One can be the beginning of like. The other can already be a complete Bulgarian word. Most desktop input systems avoid this ambiguity by asking the user to maintain a global mode: English now, Bulgarian later. The engineering is simple. The human cost appears when the mode and the thought diverge. A fo