Hi all,
anyone here know what files are used for the transcriber and keyboard layout?
I want to replace the english files with german files to have an english os with german keyboard and transcriber. Im sure that this is possible!
Anyone know or ever tried to do that ?
cya lleoneye
keyboard layout should not be a very big problem i know all the scandinavian layouts are out as freeware
but havent seen transcriber as in understanding the special signs for free
nor of cause spell checking / word guessing
imho there are no freeware german keyboard layouts...
I have tested with success:
- resco keyboard
- pdamill keyboard
- pargon interkey
all of them are working well.
here are the advantages:
- resco: nice numpad / calculator
- pdamill: german dictionary but no resolution of email addresses
- interkey: nice colored layout and "faster" than the others
at the moment I am using interkey
and for the transcriber you can use the commercial "Calligrapher" it works very well but for me personally the screen is too small for handwriting.... :wink:
HELP!!! - VIRTUAL KEYBOARD LAYOUT CHANGED to "AZERTY"(French) from "QWERTY"
CAN ANYONE HELP ME CHANGE MY VIRTUAL KEYBOARD BACK TO THE ENGLISH (QWERTY) RATHER THAN THE FRENCH (AZERTY) LAYOUT? Thank you in advance for your help and Merry Christmas!
Hi I have an ATT Tilt 2 and have recently encountered an issue with my virtual (onscreen) keyboard. I am not sure how nor exactly when the issue occurred but my virtual keyboard now has the FRENCH AZERTY keyboard layout rather than the normal QWERTY layout. The layout is now AZERTY :
# A and Q are swapped,
# Z and W are swapped,
# M is moved to the right of L (where colon/semicolon is on a US keyboard), etc.
Most of the characters are in the same place as the ENGLISH keyboard with virtually just the above exceptions.
WHAT I HAVE TRIED:
I have gone to SETTINGS > PERSONAL > INPUT > Input Method (Touch Input) > OPTIONS... button and I see there that the Language is FRENCH!
I have searched and have found no available method to change the LANGUAGE within the SETTINGS.
I have also used ADVANCED CONG. Utilizing the INPUT Selection. However ENGLISH was already the chosen option though the FRENCH LAYOUT is what is portrayed. I have tried changing the language to FRENCH then rebooting - then changing it back to ENGLISH then rebooting again. Nothing has worked.
Again I don't know what changed the layout or exactly when it changed. I believe the last few Software items I downloaded and installed prior to the change are:
DivX Player - SpooNotes -Diamond Tweak - Airscanner Antivirus -Airscanner Scheduler -Wolf's Translator - Irecway RushHour - Photoshop.com Mobile -Writer - and MPlayer .
CAN ANYONE HELP ME CHANGE MY VIRTUAL KEYBOARD BACK TO THE ENGLISH (QWERTY) RATHER THAN THE FRENCH (AZERTY) LAYOUT? Thank you in advance for your help and Merry Christmas!
When keyboard deployed, click the arrow next to the tiny keyboard onscreen. It will show you some options.
From the dropdown menu, select the second from top item (which should be "French" in your case) and choose English instead.
Since I flashed LPY (rooted), my Apple BT keyboard with a AZERTY layout is no longer recognized as such (with Samsung keyboard input selected, worked fine on GB), I get Qs instead of As...of course Azerty is selected in the keyboard menu, as well as French in Language.
Has anyone concerned found a way to fix this? Would it be worth flashing the latest UK roms?
Thanks
PS: had to use it so found an app on the market...
Are you rooted?
With Gingerbread (2.3.6) charmaps for external national keyboards were compressed into a binary format. With ICS, they are in the same place, but as plain editable text files. If you are rooted, you can access them in /system/usr/keychars/. By editing the Generic.kcm file you can map whatever characters you require. They are in standard Unicode format, and the key definition looks like this:
key A {
label: 'A'
base: 'a'
shift, capslock: 'A'
alt: '\u0105'
shift+alt: '\u0104'
ctrl, meta: none
}
So in your case, remapping "a" as "q" and the other way round should be a breeze.
Yes, I'm rooted, I will look into this (thanks sent)!
do anybody knows what keys to press on the physical keyboard to be able to change the input language?
i have Hebrew keyboard as well and i couldn't find any way to change the the language input on physical keyboard.
This is a limitation of the Android OS - you cannot change the language of the physical keyboard that easily - I never found a way to do it, but theoretically it would involve access to the software or a configfile for the text prediction so that it suypplies cues from the physical keyboard to another predictor for another language
Long-press individual keys for alternate letters, and there may be an app for converting the physical keyboard, but it will almost invariably require root. I would also try finding other nationalities who accomplished this and learn from them. -Ara
Sent from my Nexus 7 using xda app-developers app
as the mapping using the virtual keyboard of AnySoftKeyboard supports physical keyboard mapping i mange to make it work only when i change the virtual keyboard to Hebrew first and then slide the keyboard out.
this is very inconvenience cos every time i want to change the language i need to close the keyboard and switch to virtual one, change the language and star over.
maybe there is a way to add input option via the power button? like using jkay deluxe or something?
I can tell, how this problem is solved in case of russian layout, but not sure, if it works for hebrew.
Root, then use an app, called Keyboard swither from market.
After that, I installed the special verison of Russian keyboard, that had a layout, compatible with glide.
This version can be downloaded from here
the problem with keyboard switcher is that he just put an icon on desktop.
if i'm using sms app i need to close it to use the switcher, so its not the solution i need.
thanks for the help tough, we need to find a way to make a shortcut via combination of keys
to achieve this, maybe a script for int.d that can apply shortcut function on physical keyboard.
taiber2000 said:
the problem with keyboard switcher is that he just put an icon on desktop.
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Oops, sorry, i've named the wrong app, its called Keyboard manager (com.ne0fhykLabs.android.utility.kmLauncher).
How it works: it sets 3 types of keyboard for every device status - landscape, portrait, and the slide out one.
So, if you set the apropriate keyboard with a right layout and ability to swith languages via alt+space (like russian keyboard), you can use your HW keyboard with right char set (the software keyboard itself is hidden in this state).
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Oops, sorry, i've named the wrong app, its called Keyboard manager (com.ne0fhykLabs.android.utility.kmLauncher).
How it works: it sets 3 types of keyboard for every device status - landscape, portrait, and the slide out one.
So, if you set the apropriate keyboard with a right layout and ability to swith languages via alt+space (like russian keyboard), you can use your HW keyboard with right char set (the software keyboard itself is hidden in this state).
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thanks man, that work great keyboard manger and the anysoftkeyboard combination is the fix i needed. i think it work as well when i'll upgrade to ics later on
taiber2000 said:
i think it work as well when i'll upgrade to ics later on
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Yep, it does. I use it at ICS rom with no problems.
anysoftkeyboard doesnt work for arabic
Thank you for sharing this, this method is great! it works for me with bulgarian keyboard but it doesn't with arabic.
Is there anyway I can use the physical keyboard to type in arabic?
are you on ICS or JB? cos if you are with stcok GB you wont have the arabic fonts.
taiber2000 said:
are you on ICS or JB? cos if you are with stcok GB you wont have the arabic fonts.
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I'm on ICS, I tried go keyboard with the same method it worked but its showing lots of non Arabic letters, probably Farsi or Urdu I guess, I'm still looking for another keyboard with physical support, I just looked at the language packs of AnySoftKeyboard, they say that they support physical keyboard mapping for Hebrew and Russian and probably other languages but not Arabic
If you know any other keyboards with multi-language physical support please share.
you should try it with anysoftkeyboard anyhow maybe it will work.
unfourtantly i don't know about other keybaord that support mapping of physical keybaord escpasly our right to left languages.
Has anyone else noticed this? I have only enabled Finnish layout and when I use password or URL fields the layout changes to EN(UK) which is the system language.
It's really annoying because the letters move a slight amount to different places.
I wonder of any other languages has this issue. Google or reddit doesn't give any results for the issue.
I'm writing from a French device so I too need a few more layouts, but since physical keyboards can't shift themselves I changed all the layouts of all languages to Azerty to avoid always searching for keys.
Can you check if its enabled for yours too?