Apple Job Listing For iOS Keyboard and Text Engineer Hints at Support for Additional Languages

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Posted July 30, 2013 at 7:09pm by iClarified

An Apple job posting first spotted by 9to5mac for an iOS keyboard and text engineer hints at further support for other languages and scripts.

Currently iOS supports 50 languages and different script systems across the iOS keyboard system but that number could change as Apple wants to add even more engineers as it looks to "work closely with international teams and native speakers to accommodate all the world’s script systems."

While iOS supports 50 languages some languages like Farsi (Persian), Maltese, and Afrikaans are still missing and unsupported.

The iOS keyboard and text team is looking for an excellent software engineer to join our team. The iPhone and iPad keyboards revolutionized the way that people use their mobile devices to communicate, and we're only getting started! This is a high visibility, high impact position that requires a breadth of knowledge and deep understanding of OS fundamentals.

As an engineer on the keyboard and text team, you will be working at all levels of the iOS platform: from low-level algorithm work and framework development to high-level UI programming and user interaction refinement. The keyboard architecture is constantly evolving as we continue to innovate and introduce breakthrough text input mechanisms for millions of users worldwide.

To continue to delight our global audience, we work closely with international teams and native speakers to accommodate all the world's script systems, so solid collaborative skills are a must. Fluency in a non-English language or familiarity with internationalization issues is a big plus!

iOS 7 did improve Chinese input handwriting recognition and previous iOS updates have also improved keyboard support.

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Apple Job Listing For iOS Keyboard and Text Engineer Hints at Support for Additional Languages

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Bakhter Ihsan - September 12, 2013 at 2:55am

about 70 million people in Afg, Pak and around the world speaking in Pashto, plz add Pashto language which will solve problem of all Pashtons.

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Erik - September 11, 2013 at 8:28am

Please add Mongolian cyrillic With pleasure

SALIH - August 5, 2013 at 8:50pm

Please add PASHTO into it please!!! 40 to 60 million PASHTOONS will appreciate that

khalil mumtaz - August 5, 2013 at 8:12pm

There more then 60 million pashtons are exist only in afghanistan and Pakistan and millions are exist in the world if apple company add pashto language to their products it will help these people use apple products effectivly.

Roshan lp - August 1, 2013 at 10:01pm

Please add pashto language to iOS 7

Akbar - August 1, 2013 at 9:28pm

Plz add PASHTO language!

ahsanullah - August 1, 2013 at 10:21am

to apple administration: we want apple administration to add pashto language in thier keybords and products that will be more and more success of apple porducts

Sajid Masood - August 1, 2013 at 7:07am

Dear Apple administration, Please Add The Pashto language, We Need The Pashto language in your products

Baryalai Jalalzai - August 1, 2013 at 4:28am

Dear Apple administration, please add Pashto language to your products (especially to iPhone); more than 60 million people are native of it all over the world! Therefore, it has to be in all Apple products’ keyboard. So please, please and please add Pashto to your products. Thank you!

zabihullah - August 1, 2013 at 3:14am

Dear Apple administration, please add pashto language to your all products as Microsoft added.

Hamid Faraaz - July 31, 2013 at 3:44pm

Hamid Faraaz - July 31, 2013 at 3:43pm

Please add Pashto language to iPhone; more than 60 million people are native of it all over the world! Therefore, it has to be in iPhone keyboard. So please, please and please add Pashto to iPhone. Thank you!

Abdul Habib - July 31, 2013 at 12:56pm

I am an Android phone user, adding Pashto language to ios will make the difference for me to switch over to the Apple.

Nasir Sharanwal - July 31, 2013 at 11:22am

Hi Sir! Apple phones have a good marking in Afghanistan therefore, i would like to request you to add Pashto(Afghanistan&Pakistan) Language

Anwaruddin - July 31, 2013 at 10:56am

Pashto (Afghanistan) is spoken over all Afghanistan and Pakistan. a large number of fans already using iProducts. We have Pashto (Afghanistan) in windows XP, Vista, 7 and Windows 8. Microsoft Office support Pashto (Afghanistan) too. Nokia Mobile supporting it too. millions of people here buying Nokia only for Pashto language. we sometimes get Arabic to type right-to-left Language but that does not contains all characters of Pashto (Afghanistan) Please add this language to your Apple products. iphone. ipad etc. Thank You

Anwaruddin Noor - July 31, 2013 at 10:54am

Please consider Pashto Language ( more than 75% People of Afghanistan speak) as well, as Apple products are having good market in Afghanistan and other Pashtun areas of pakistan. It is very simple just by adding few formats to Arabic key board, Pashot can be completed.

khalid wahedi - July 31, 2013 at 10:08am

please add pashto in to the products of apple

yussuf - July 31, 2013 at 9:31am

per favore voliamo il nostro lingua Pashto su Ipal grazie

Saif ur Rahman - July 31, 2013 at 8:41am

Dear Sir! Apple phones have a good marking in Afghanistan therefore, i would like to request you to add Pashto Language to older and the latest versions of Apple phones.

Ghiasuddin Tajwal - July 31, 2013 at 8:39am

add Pashto in your producs because Pashto Alphabets including all letters of Persion and Arabic adding Pashto in your products will not be a difficult job. but economical benefits will more for Apple