Earlier this year I had the pleasure of implementing for Firefox OS an input method for Vietnamese (a language I have some familiarity with). After being dissatisfied with the Vietnamese input methods on other smartphones, I was eager to do something better.

I believe Firefox OS is now the easiest smartphone on the market for out-of-the-box typing of Vietnamese.

The Challenge of Vietnamese

Vietnamese uses the Latin alphabet, much like English, but it has an additional 7 letters with diacritics (A, ^A, D, ^E, ^O,

http://tedclancy.wordpress.com/2014/09/25/a-better-way-to-input-vietnamese/