I was wondering if there was a way to add Japanese as an language input for the Android keyboard? By default, there is no option to add Japanese as a llanguage input, and all other keyboards that have it are either ugly, don't have ICS as an optional theme or just too much, I prefer the stock Android keyboard on ICS over anything else and I'm sure there are some of you that agree. It would be nice to have this and other possible languages as optional languages on this keyboard.
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Google Japanese Input Beta is what I use when I need to type in Japanese, but I too would prefer it if it could be part of the language selection within natural ICS settings.
Before updating my Sensation from Gingerbread to ICS, I could Long-press in they text field for the popup menu to appear, from which i could change between English and Japanese with no hassle.
After the ICS update, I keep on needing to go into settings>Language and Keyboard>Keyboard and input methods>Select Japanese. Bloody annoying, having to do this, especially if the sms's I receive keep on alternating between Japanese and English....
Anything I am missing out on here?
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Google Japanese Input Beta is what I use when I need to type in Japanese, but I too would prefer it if it could be part of the language selection within natural ICS settings.
Before updating my Sensation from Gingerbread to ICS, I could Long-press in they text field for the popup menu to appear, from which i could change between English and Japanese with no hassle.
After the ICS update, I keep on needing to go into settings>Language and Keyboard>Keyboard and input methods>Select Japanese. Bloody annoying, having to do this, especially if the sms's I receive keep on alternating between Japanese and English....
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I am using Google IME Beta on stock ICS 4.0.4. I can switch between English and Japanese by long-pressing the spacebar (on the English keyboard) or the bottom left key (on the Japanese keyboard) and changing to the other language in the popup dialog.
Morning guys,
I now see that Vietnamese has been added to "input language" in the Android Keyboard (in Jelly Bean). But I don't know how to use it to type Vietnamese. , my language, and I don't know how to switch between English to Vietnamese either.
Currently I'm using Multiling Keyboard (or GoTiengViet), but if there is a default builtin keyboard, it is much better.
Drop me some instructions, please.
Hi everyone!
Is there any way to change my DX's keyboard from QWERTZ to QWERTY?
I bought this device a few weeks ago, but I wasn't told that it was coming with a QWERTZ keyboard. To be honest, it's not a real problem to me, as I've almost got used to it.
I just want to know if there is any way to change it...
If I go to "Keyboard types", the default choice is "Standard". Changing it to "Phone" or "Compact", will make the keyboard QWERTY, but it will also affect the keyboard layout, making it difficult (for me) to use.
Downloading (for example) a third-party keyboard from the market, will turn it into a QWERTY keyboard, or there will be no changes?
I'd also like to ask, if I'm going to face any king of problems when flashing unofficial ROM's.
Well, you can just choose another keyboard language, by single pressing the button with the country's letters, for example: if you live in France, it shows: FR, just press it till the qwertz changes to qwerty
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Thanks for the answer! I just checked that!
It's true that by changing the keyboard to my country's one (GR), the keyboard turns to qwerty. But the the Greek letters are not are not the same as the Latin ones, so unfortunately it does not help.
I also changed the English language to French (cause they have the same characters), but the keyboard remained qwertz.
Go to settings>language & keyboard>HTC Sense input>keyboard selection, when you scroll completely down, it will show some other keyboards, I don't know the Greek keyboard, but I think it's somewhere there
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At keyboard selection, all I can see (except for the toggle keyboard option) is about selecting different languages. No option for qwerty there.
I'm gonna send a mail at htc support, and if I'll find a solution about this, I'll immediately post it here.
In HTC Sense input, first the top button: keyboard selection, then scroll down as much as you can, there you'll see different types of keyboards
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Yeap, this is excactly where I went! The only thing I can do there is add/remove languages from my keyboard.
But...
At HTC Sense Input, there is an "Advanced Settings" option, where I change the keyboard type. The problem is that by changing the type to "Phone" or "Compact", it changes to qwerty (at Compact type), but the whole keyboard's layout is completely different.
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But, when you choose France for example, it shows a azerty keyboard, when you choose German, a qwertz keyboard, choose Dutch, a QWERTY keyboard, just try them out.
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panos_ts said:
Hi everyone!
Is there any way to change my DX's keyboard from QWERTZ to QWERTY?
I bought this device a few weeks ago, but I wasn't told that it was coming with a QWERTZ keyboard. To be honest, it's not a real problem to me, as I've almost got used to it.
I just want to know if there is any way to change it...
If I go to "Keyboard types", the default choice is "Standard". Changing it to "Phone" or "Compact", will make the keyboard QWERTY, but it will also affect the keyboard layout, making it difficult (for me) to use.
Downloading (for example) a third-party keyboard from the market, will turn it into a QWERTY keyboard, or there will be no changes?
I'd also like to ask, if I'm going to face any king of problems when flashing unofficial ROM's.
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If you want greek letters, you press microphone buttons till you get greek. If you want QWERTY press the mic till you get english or anu other qwerty language.
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And, no it wont affect flashing ROMs.
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HTC replied to me a few hours ago, and they told me that the only way to change it to a qwerty keyboard, is by installing a third party keyboard from Play Store.
I was planning to buy SwiftKey 3 Keyboard the previous days (when it was on 50% sale), but I postponed it, cause I thought that it was going to be similar (qwertz) to the stock.
MaartenXDA said:
But, when you choose France for example, it shows a azerty keyboard, when you choose German, a qwertz keyboard, choose Dutch, a QWERTY keyboard, just try them out.
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This doesn't happen in my case. Don't know why, but if I choose French (or German or Italian) I will still have a the exact same (qwertz) keyboard. No changes at all!
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If you want greek letters, you press microphone buttons till you get greek. If you want QWERTY press the mic till you get english or anu other qwerty language.
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My problem is that I cannot get qwerty keyboard with English (or other similar Latin) language selected.
When I press the mic in order to choose Greek, the keyboard turns to "qwerty", but when I change back to English (or other identical Latin keyboards), the keyboard becomes qwertz again!
Weird... Well, use the SwiftKey keyboard if it fixes the problem...
Hi all, wondering if anyone has the same incredibly frustrating problem.
I'm using a Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7105
I used to use the Samsung Keyboard with English and the Chinese language input (downloaded in it's language settings).
But after a hard rest (My phone had recently updated itself to 4.3 with no change) I no longer have Chinese as a downloadable language.
WHY is this so annoying... Becuase if I use another keyboard that has chinese I can't swap between it and the Samsung Keyboard in Keyboard. The Samsung has to be selects in the phone setting and can't be selected as one of many keyboards.
The reason why I wish to use the Samsung keyboard is becuase of its great swipe input function. I have not found another keyboard that has swipe in English and Chinese input funtionality.
Which means I can never using any combo of keyboards swap easily from chinese to swipe english keyboard. Aarrgghh!!!!!
I think It has something to do with the locale version of the 4.3 android os. I heard that different locales have different downloadable language options. But why has mine sudenly changed!
Anyone?
wildtypitch said:
Hi all, wondering if anyone has the same incredibly frustrating problem.
I'm using a Galaxy Note 2 GT-N7105
I used to use the Samsung Keyboard with English and the Chinese language input (downloaded in it's language settings).
But after a hard rest (My phone had recently updated itself to 4.3 with no change) I no longer have Chinese as a downloadable language.
WHY is this so annoying... Becuase if I use another keyboard that has chinese I can't swap between it and the Samsung Keyboard in Keyboard. The Samsung has to be selects in the phone setting and can't be selected as one of many keyboards.
The reason why I wish to use the Samsung keyboard is becuase of its great swipe input function. I have not found another keyboard that has swipe in English and Chinese input funtionality.
Which means I can never using any combo of keyboards swap easily from chinese to swipe english keyboard. Aarrgghh!!!!!
I think It has something to do with the locale version of the 4.3 android os. I heard that different locales have different downloadable language options. But why has mine sudenly changed!
Anyone?
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Samsung must have changed the CSC of your device when upgrading to Android 4.3
I don't own your device. So I am just sharing what I know.
Go to messaging app, and select create new message and the keyboard will be activated.
In that look for any settings icon.
If there is one, then click on it and change your input language.
^If it doesn't work, go to menu>settings>language and input and change the options.
Press thanks if I have helped.
Maybe someone has better ideas.
Is there a way to Force Left-To-Right layout on RTL languages (on Arabic & Hebrew)?
Hi, as you may know, for Localization purposes Android forces Right-to-Left orientation on some languages, like Arabic and Hebrew. Although it makes a perfect sense, since people on these languages actually read from Right to Left, it's highly annoying for many Hebrew & Arabic speakers, because everything is inverted, the entire UI and Layout is inverted.
So switching from English / Russian / or even old Android versions that used to be always LTR (even on Hebrew and Arabic) and switching to modern Android versions (or switching to Hebrew & Arabic) are forcing LTR on these languages. Which considered as confusing and counter-intuitive for many users, especially elderly people who were already used to the LTR orientation and now they have to deal with this new learning curve again...
Is there a way to force back LTR even when Hebrew and Arabic are the default language for the device?
Thanks!
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Hi, as you may know, for Localization purposes Android forces Right-to-Left orientation on some languages, like Arabic and Hebrew. Although it makes a perfect sense, since people on these languages actually read from Right to Left, it's highly annoying for many Hebrew & Arabic speakers, because everything is inverted, the entire UI and Layout is inverted.
So switching from English / Russian / or even old Android versions that used to be always LTR (even on Hebrew and Arabic) and switching to modern Android versions (or switching to Hebrew & Arabic) are forcing LTR on these languages. Which considered as confusing and counter-intuitive for many users, especially elderly people who were already used to the LTR orientation and now they have to deal with this new learning curve again...
Is there a way to force back LTR even when Hebrew and Arabic are the default language for the device?
Thanks!
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In the developers options (click few times build number to activate)
there is a revert options that reverts the layout. Its worth the try.
Hi, thank. But I know about this option, the funny thing is that it works on LTR languages but does nothing for RTL languages...
And even if it worked, it's not a permanent solution because it resets on reboot...
Thanks anyway.
Hi, did u figure out any solution to this yet?
Anzee said:
Hi, did u figure out any solution to this yet?
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How to force left-to-right on right-to-left language
Hello everyone, I'm having very serious UI issues whenever I change my language to RTL language like Arabic or Persian, as the ROM is designed only for LTR use My question is there are anyway to force LTR layout for the whole system, just like...
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