Latvian keyboard double press letter change

[Roxxor91]

Hey! The latvian keyboard has a feature, I guess intended for physical keyboards: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/LanguagePack/blob/Latvian/src/main/res/xml/qwerty_physical.xml So this changes eg. ss so š. The problem is that latvian has many words with for example "ss", or other double letters. So when I am typing those words, eg. "ieeja", I get as result "iēja". Is there any reason for this physical keyboard config to exist? Shouldn't physical keyboards include other keys which can be used to achieve those special letters? I am for deleting the physical keyboard config.

[friesenkiwi]

Hi, thank you for your report and sorry for the slow response :-( I understand your question and request, but I'm hesitant to just remove something like that. I guess there is probably a reason why it has been created in the first place and would like to understand that first before removing the file and breaking the workflow for somebody else... @menny cacn you tell us, why this config exists? Obviously it came from the old SVN sources...

[menny]

The cause is this: https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/LanguagePack/blob/Latvian/src/main/res/xml/qwerty.xml#L23

It seems that in the first request for this keyboard the users ask for this feature to be similar to the physical keyboard.

I'm okay with removing this for the default layout. Maybe creating another layout that has this multi-tap support? idk, you can decide.

[kasinjsh]

Is this change abandoned? Any chance on implementation?