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Portuguese layout
Language
Portuguese
Kind of request
Changes on an existing layout
More details
Mostly the same as the Spanish layout but adding tildes (ã, õ and ç) and dropping off the ñ
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I have recreated the official Portuguese layouts from the Android and iOS versions from MessagEase, but they differ in some places. On the Exideas keyboard exchange site I haven't seen a Portuguese one. @racuna what do you think, would these two be good enough, or is a third one needed? If so, please, advise how that layout would look like. Please, try to keep changes compared to either of these to a minimum, to mess the least with the muscle memory of long time users.
The second one looks cool. Because there is a c-cecilla (Ç o ç), which the original MessageAse didn't have (IIRC).
There is no ñ in Portuguese, but having it there could be practical for people who write in more than one language (instead of switching between keyboards).
Neither of those layouts have an easily accessible á, which is a very common diacritic in portuguese. Makes it somewhat impractical to use.
None of these layouts have the ^ accent. (that symbol on top of the I is the up arrow cursor). As portuguese doesn't use ñ, it could be replaced by ^, like the French layout
@aseixas Do you know where it's located in the ME layout? D-north could work. For what it's worth, you can type it with the deadkeys support (A then N-northeast), but I understand that it's not the most convenient.
This issue has been migrated to Codeberg: see https://codeberg.org/natkr/flickboard/issues/74 for any further discussion!