How Apple Puts Indigenous Languages on the iPhone Keyboard

I'm always happy to see Unicode get its flowers. I didn't realize the consortium only has four full-time employees!

And as much as I've been disenfranchised by Apple lately, it's also nice to see they still have thoughtful people working for them:

Nez Perce, or Nimipuutímt, does not use capital letters. Rather than having the Shift key toggle traditional uppercase letters, Apple repurposed it to reveal an accented secondary layer, so users don’t have to hold down individual keys to see those characters, which can slow typing. In the Cherokee language, each character mostly represents a consonant combined with a vowel sound, a form known as syllabary. Apple added adaptive vowel keys on the bottom row, so when a user types a consonant, these keys change to show the vowel combinations they can make.