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Support for Qwerty US international with dead key

Open gotchai opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

Hello,

I would like to know if you can add support for the international QWERTY US layout with the support of dead keys ?

Unexpected keyboard only supports international QWERTY US at the moment.

This layout is very useful for all accents with a physical keyboard

Regards

gotchai avatar Jan 01 '22 09:01 gotchai

Hi! The keyboard already has accents that work similarly to dead keys. All the accents are hidden by default unless you have the corresponding languages installed on your device. For example, if you have English US and French enabled in your settings, you'll see all the French accents even on the QWERTY layout.

Would adding languages in your device settings work for you ?

Alternatively, there's the "Show every accents" mode for the "Accents" option, which will show every accents the keyboard supports.

Julow avatar Jan 01 '22 16:01 Julow

Were you able to make the dead keys work ? The keyboard currently supports a limited number of languages and knows only a few dead keys. Which keys do you wish were on the keyboard ?

Julow avatar Jan 15 '22 20:01 Julow

Let me explain this step by step

When connecting a usb c - to usb c keyboard to my android phone or via bluetooth :

  • I select unexexpected keyboard - English International Style when the physical keyboard is connected
  • What is okay : when I try to make a "è" it works (combination of dead key "`" (acute) + "e" key) when I try to make a "ẽ" it works too ( combination of dead key "~" (tilde)+ "e" key) when I try to make a "ê" it works too ( combination of dead key "^" (circumflex) + "e" key)
  • What is not okay : é = combination of dead key "´" (single quote) + "e" key - ë = combination of dead key "¨" (double quote) + "e" key ç (cedilla) = combination of dead key "´" (single quote) + "c"

Could you please have a look on those combinations ?

See pictures attached : signal-2022-04-12-121514_001 signal-2022-04-12-121303_001

gotchai avatar Apr 12 '22 10:04 gotchai

Thanks for the follow-up. The keyboard shouldn't interfere with the physical layout but I didn't manage to test that with the emulator yet.

Does the dead-keys work as you expect with the other keyboard apps ?

Julow avatar Apr 23 '22 23:04 Julow