request: special chars with longpress on Droid/Milestone HW Keyboard - Android Software Development

Hi There!
I (and I think a lot of others too) would be interested in something like a hack/mod/app ...whatever is needed for the hardware keyboard of the Motorola Droid aka Milestone.
You get a selection of special characters when you long press a key.
e.g. a long press of "o" offers you ó ò ö and some more over a popup on the screen.
But in German we only have 4 special characters: ü ä ö and ß
So, it would be much more useful that if you long press "o", that you get a "ö" directly without having to choose it on the screen.
o => ö, O => Ö
a => ä, A => A
u => ü, U => Ü
s => ß
Is this possible?
(I hope you can even see the special characters in this post)

Yes. Does anyone know if this could be done?
All Scandinavians could use this too.
For Norwegians the following would be nice:
o > ø
a > å
e > æ
There are so damned many å's in our language that I have to keep holding and tapping the screen all the time, it really defeats the purpose of having a great hardware keyboard.

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Guys,
I´m from Brazil and in my portuguese keyboard I had an issue with comma an period keys.
I´ve used the AEKMap program to remap my keyboard. On google, type aekmap an the link will come.
Here are the settins i used.
; layout [email protected]
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Hi
Is it possible to make longpressing a character on the keyboard use a character of my choice? rather than bringing up a menu where I have to click on the screen to choose character?
Example:
I want to use the character Å (A with a ring over it, its in the norwegian alphabet)
I longpress A, and that gives me a menu on the screen with Â, Ã, Ä and Å, and I have to click one of those!
Instead I want to set my own characters like this:
Longpress A = Å (A-ring)
Longpress E = Æ (AE)
Longpress O = Ø (O-line)
I dont know if this exists or even if it is possible, but it would be a great timesaver!
This would indeed be very useful. Request seconded.
Third
Just as a tip for my fellow norwegians, since aa (a with ring above) is the key that is most to use, I usually just copy that letter and just paste it when I need it later, and long press o to got oe and then press enter, and for ae I just long press a and use the scroll wheel to move one field down and then press enter.
Not sure if this works for you, but I manage just fine with this approach. The only thing that annoys me is the lack of support for foreign keys in the android browser.

Finnish/Swedish/... keyboard + Finnish TouchFlo 3D

Hi.
I have attached two cab files into this message.
Rhodium_Scandi_T9.cab includes Scandinavian keyboard and T9.
ä: fn + a
ö: fn + s
å: fn + d
TF3D2_Finnish.cab includes Finnish TouchFlo 3D
Hope you like them!
Thanks! I like 'em a lot!
6sto said:
Hi.
I have attached two cab files into this message.
Rhodium_Scandi_T9.cab includes Scandinavian keyboard and T9.
ä: fn + a
ö: fn + s
å: fn + d
TF3D2_Finnish.cab includes Finnish TouchFlo 3D
Hope you like them!
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Can you tell what you changed - I'm looking for a way to use the German Keyboard with the English ROM?
Thank you
CHfish
Could you make another scandi-layout?
Hi could you make another layout?
ä = fn+a (same you had)
ö = fn+o (because origin keyboard has - symbol at o-key it must change to another key, i think better for - character is)
- = fn+p (origin _ symbol at keyboard, so you remeber this easy,and _ character i need rarelyand it can be writing with soft keyboard if needed)
å = whatever, i dont use
MadAri
Hi!
Is there a change to modify the keymap of landscape softkeyboard?
In portrait mode there is easy way to type scandinavians like Ä+Ö+Å.
Just hold the A key and wait a second and there is Ä.
Holding S makes Ö and holding D makes Å.
But.. in landscape mode there are scandinavians but they arent
mapped to be second change of keypress.
Can anyone help?
Thanks and sorry for bad english
Anyone? Is there a way to modify keymapping of landscape softkeyboard?
Could you make this to have a letter for æ also??
That would be mutch apprechiated..
Thanks, TF3D2_Finnish.cab works fine with Diamond 2.
Big Thanks !! working well in my topaz.
Thanks A lot! I really like the touchflow language in finnish
Sweet
This is great!
Im thinking of future installing different ROMS and then this would be perfect. But i have the scandinavian keyboard layout with the letters already on the keyboard. So can you do a cab for the original layout as well?
So here's the layout:
Fn+I = Å
Fn+O = Ä
Fn+P = Ö
Fn+K = Æ
FN=L = Ø
I think this layout in particular would suit all the scandinavian handsets.
Thanks in advance
fluke73 said:
This is great!
Im thinking of future installing different ROMS and then this would be perfect. But i have the scandinavian keyboard layout with the letters already on the keyboard. So can you do a cab for the original layout as well?
So here's the layout:
Fn+I = Å
Fn+O = Ä
Fn+P = Ö
Fn+K = Æ
FN=L = Ø
I think this layout in particular would suit all the scandinavian handsets.
Thanks in advance
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I need this key layout too!!
I flashed a new rom to my hrodium, and i have the scandic hw keyboard. I really need a fix to make the keys work right again. Plz would somebody be kind enough to make a cab that fixes the key layout or teach me hoe to fix it by myself..
Hi, look at this reply http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4374968&postcount=20 Crashpad has done a Scandinavian keyboard layout that works fine for me... Cheers/M
Nordic keyboard mapping + Dictionary for WWW ROMs
Hi
Includes Fin, Swe, Dan, Nor, Eng XT9 dictionaries also. I did nothing but copied the Tegic registry to cab including eT9.Rhodium.0414.kmap.txt file.
Please notice hardware keyoard mapping is for Nordic keyboard layout.
.Illodin
Illodin said:
Hi
Includes Fin, Swe, Dan, Nor, Eng XT9 dictionaries also. I did nothing but copied the Tegic registry to cab including eT9.Rhodium.0414.kmap.txt file.
Please notice hardware keyoard mapping is for Nordic keyboard layout.
.Illodin
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Thanks!! Work perfect!
thanks a lot!
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