#87 Support Polish alternate characters on hardware keyboard?

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com
Originally owned by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Attach a hardware keyboard to a Galaxy Tab
2. Set the language to Polish in Hacker's Keyboard
3. On the hardware keyboard, press Alt + a,e,o,l,n,c,x,z

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Should get Polish letters (I'm unsure about the specific ones). The Tab shows a popup instead with selectable characters?
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Note that I consider this to be a bit beyond the scope of the software keyboard, but I'll see if there's an easy fix for this. It may be possible to fix this via user-modifiable hardware key bindings (issue 84), but there may be an easier solution.

Apparently the "Polish Programmer Keyboard V2" got this working back in 2009 for the G1 (Dream) phone's built-in hardware keyboard: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.example.inputmethod.popolsku

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com

Found a thread about it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=515068

x21user wrote: "I used LatinIME from android git tree and modified so it does not use JNI (headache to install) and can be built under Eclipse. Then I added intercepting of hardware ALT and Shift to allow entering Polish characters."

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com

From email: ALT + ... = ...
a = ą
e = ę
o = ó
s = ś
l = ł
z = ż
x = ź
c = ć
n = ń

example for A - Ą => http://dl.dropbox.com/u/26708812/Android/SC20111010-205825.png    from 0 to 3rd point - Right Alt + 'A'.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: MSmia...@gmail.com

Can you modify the software part for Polish layout a bit? The most common Polish keyboard layout for full-sized computers is so-called Polish Programmer's. It's like US layout with these exceptions - RightAlt + key = other key:
a = ą
c = ć
e = ę
l = ł
n = ń
o = ó
s = ś
x = ź
z = ż

and capital letters:
A = Ą
C = Ć
L = Ł
N = Ń
O = Ó
S = Ś
X = Ź
Z = Ż

With the current Hacker's Keyboard layout it's kind of similar, as long-press results in an alternate character, with exception of ż and ź. ż is more common, so I'd like to ask you to make ż default for long-pressing z(eventually with ź as another alternative), and ź as default for long-pressing x; it would be also cool if in horizontal layout alt+key resulted in accented characters

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: Klaus.We...@gmail.com

See also issue 129, I've updated the long-press alternates for x and z.

Please try version 1.28rc5 (or later) from http://code.google.com/p/hackerskeyboard/downloads/list and let me know if that works as expected for you.

I'm looking into AltGr key support to make the character available that way.

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: adam.czy...@gmail.com

It looks it's not working now, using latest version from Google Play (v1.33). Polish characters are OK using soft on-screen keyboard (these are the only choices available on-screen), but using hardware usb keyboard doesn't work for me. Neither left nor right alt. However, it works OK using right alt with "Polish Programmer Keyboard V2" mentioned here.

My hardware is Samsung Galaxy Note, Android ICS 4.0.3.

It looks strange anyway, seems to have different layout for hardware keyboard, look what alt+letter combination gives me:

alt+c = ç
ale+e = `
alt+s = β
alt+n = ~

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: barto...@gmail.com

In my case, on my GT-p1000 now I get:
"#" instead od "ą" (alt+a),
"8" instead of "ź" (alt+x),
"9" instead of "ć" (alt+c),
"(" instead of "ó" (alt+o),
"'" instead of "ł" (alt+l),
"4" instead of "ś" (alt+s),
">" instead of "ń" (alt+n),
"2" instead of "ę" (alt+e)
Alt+z seems not to work at all, or yields "7" instead of "ż".

What could be done about it?

Best regards,
Bartosz Malinowski

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: barto...@gmail.com

My systm seems to be gingerbread.
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