Support searching with wrong keyboard layout

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Problem

This is a problem for all non-latin languages: you forget to switch the layout from one language (e.g. Russian) and type something in another language (e.g. English) only to find yourself with a weird looking string

For instance: you want to write pull request, with wrong layout it becomes згдд куйгуые

Search engines added support for this a long time ago, see google: https://www.google.ru/search?q=%D0%B7%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B4+%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B9%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%8B%D0%B5

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Solution

It would be nice if Maccy supported searching in the wrong layout.

That would probably mean that every search string would be searched twice: for original string and for layout-converted one. Google probably uses heuristics to only search with one of those, but that would be overcomplicated. Therefore that feature should be turned off by default, so that one layout only users would not be punished (and they are probably the majority of your app users)

Implementation wise: the app could use predefined mappings between layouts. I saw something like that on github. Worst case scenario: users could provide their own mapping, in case their layout is not supported