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Author Topic: The Jailbreaking Megathread  (Read 7190 times)

That's an awesome battery icon, Miga. I'll be posting screenshots of my device sometime soon.

Some other cool iOS jailbreaking stuff from my now-retired-and-in-it's-box-in-my-closet iPod Touch 2G:


All I see is マイ Even though it ends with a hiragana  instead of the katakana , so it's basically the Japanese tansliteration of the English "My" followed by the definite article ""

I was aware of it, not only did my brother point it out, but I knew it was incorrect because Apple's wonderful iOS decided to keep correcting me to that.

Before I put it to rest, I just changed it to a raster image of "Miga".

I was aware of it, not only did my brother point it out, but I knew it was incorrect because Apple's wonderful iOS decided to keep correcting me to that.

Before I put it to rest, I just changed it to a raster image of "Miga".

It's little lies like this that really get to me.



Even if that's true, you still lied about the Apple iOS pointing out the mistake.

Ever hear of "autocorrect"?
Apparently not.

Here, I'll give you some resources. Maybe you'll learn something. Probably not, you're pretty damn thick-skulled.
Autocorrect on Dictionary.com
Text replacement on Wikipedia

Now that that's out of the way, I can tell you that, after being an advanced iOS user for over three years, autocorrect often likes to think it's right when it's not. In fact, it's a well known problem that autocorrect gets things wrong quite often for everybody else too. Do your Google searching.
« Last Edit: May 07, 2011, 02:47:12 AM by Miga »

Ever hear of "autocorrect"?
Apparantly not.

oh the irony


Ever hear of "autocorrect"?
Apparantly not.

Here, I'll give you some resources. Maybe you'll learn something. Probably not, you're pretty damn thick-skulled.
Autocorrect on Dictionary.com
Text replacement on Wikipedia

Now that that's out of the way, I can tell you that, after being an advanced iOS user for over three years, autocorrect often likes to think it's right when it's not. In fact, it's a well known problem that autocorrect gets things wrong quite often for everybody else too. Do your Google searching.

Do you know what an Input Method Editor is? Or specifically, how an IME for Japanese works? Let me walk you through it:


I type out "maiga", that is m-a-i-g-a, and it returns the hiragana まいが with a bold, black underline.

But "まいが" can mean a lot of things, and the hiragana is too vague on its own in this case. So, with the hiragana underlined, I press the spacebar to change it into a kanji. 



Look at that, we're presented with what the computer believes to be our most desired set of kanji. You can see that if we press 1 we'll get the name "Mai" followed by the kana for "the",  if we press 2 we get "My" followed by "the" again. Further down the list you can see things like the kanjis for "dance", "sheet",  "rice", all followed by "ga". Now where is the elusive マイガ that we are after, the proper spelling of your name? Hmm... it's clearly not on the list, so it must be further down...



Oh look at that! The proper spelling is just the random assortment of katakana that appears at the bottom (notice the scrollbar) of every kanji suggestion after the computer gives up on trying to find your kanji. So apparently, this mythical autocorrect was able to read your mind, and choose the least-likely solution to your other-wise correct sentence fragment, and output the made-up name that you were after.

Stop lying Miga, it only proves your autism somehow.
« Last Edit: May 07, 2011, 02:52:54 AM by Stocking »

Stop lying Miga, it only proves your autistic somehow.

what about his autistic?

 :cookieMonster:

lmao I saw that edit. "autistism"

Stocking, Microsoft IME != iOS Japanese IME. They're different.

Like I said, you don't learn. Keep calling me autistic, it'll just further prove you're a dullard.

Stocking, Microsoft IME != iOS Japanese IME. They're different.

Like I said, you don't learn. Keep calling me autistic, it'll just further prove you're a dullard.

So I guess the IME is so stuff that it corrects things that aren't misspellings and suggests you change them to completely meaningless strings of katakana?

Sounds like autism to me.

Tom

Autocorrect doesn't give you a nice list to chose from. It replaces the word after you type it, and sometimes you never even notice it.

Autocorrect doesn't give you a nice list to chose from. It replaces the word after you type it, and sometimes you never even notice it.

Not with a Japanese auto-correct~