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Simple question about wizard keyboard

does an english wizard have the same physical keyboard (letters in the same positions) than an italian or french or german wizard?
Are the keyboards all the same?
thanx

nope.. T-Mobile germany's keyboards are QWERTZ:
http://www.mobilewhack.com/images/T-Mobile-MDA-Vario.jpg
While here's a French AZERTY:
http://www.smartphonefrance.info/img/Qtek9100-05.jpg

well...i need to know the italian and the english...do they match?

as far as letter and number keys go, yes - IT and EN are both:
QWERTYUIOP
ASDFGHJKL
ZXCVBNM
There may be some difference in the other keys, due to the italian language making use of extended letters a lot (thus putting them on the keyboard would be useful for users of it).
Haven't spotted a picture of an IT one yet

if the underlying question is: Can I use an english ROM with an italian device? The answer is : yes. You will find other posts that explain what registry changes will let you map correctly the keyboard. Like in France we use AZERTY keyboards, so making the correct registry changes, we can use our french keyboard and use the A key and get an A instead of a Q

yes but the problem is that in italian qwerty there are buttons for à,è,é,ò,ì,ù ...very used letter in my language...i just wonder if on english qwerty these letters/button ar present and primary.

Its' the same in French! If you have an italian device and if you update correctly the registry you should have all keys functionning as before. I've not tested it yet on my phone (still a french ROM) but I do it on my PC: french keyboard and english OS. I can use all the accented letters like if I were using a French keyboard with a French OS. I don't see why it should be otherwise on the PPC.

i can't explain...sorry!
what I mean is if the letter/button "è" (for instance) is NOT PHISICALLY present/written on the phisycal qwerty english tkeyboard BUT it is present ( and IT IS PRESENT because I use it everyday) on the italian qwerty...this answers to my question

Not quite sure what you are looking for exactly. Anyway, maybe this will help:
go to \HKCU\ControlPanel\Keybd
There should be a "Locale" string value. If it's not there create it! and give it the value "0410"
To get the accented letters like e
press e
then the blue dot (left bottom corner)
then the space bar
I hope I'm making sense.Good luck!

:x
He's asking whether the keys are physically there on the slide-out keyboard. I.e. is there a little label / sticker with "è" on it?
There isn't one the English version (you can still get that character by means of the Sym key in combination with the 'e' key).

just to add confusion to this problem.
i have a t mobile MDA and a frien has a O2 mini and the keyboard layout is different on both. the Mini gets the benefit of a '£' sign whilst i have to get the electronic keyboard out for this. i suppose i could do a reg edit, anyone know how???

Touch Keypad/Keyboard bug? T9 Not working anymore

Hi,
Just installed the Bepe ROM (19209.1.0.2).
Yesterday and today was working fine. Now I have a weird problem (bug?). The "Touch Keypad" and the "Touch Keyboard" they enter only numbers and not letters:
for example I press the "er" and it writes the number "1", I cannot figure it out how to write the letters (small or CAP, same thing).
1) Touch Keypad: only numbers
2) Touch Keyboard: only numbers
3) Keyboard: ok
4) Touch qwerty: ok
All of the above (1,2,3 and 4) no T9/input prediction not working.
And now word completion (T9) doesn't work on any keyboard
How can I fix this?

This also happen with my Cruise with udK R0 (the italian one) equipped, even after an hard reset.
I'm looking for a fix, too.

gandalf2000 said:
This also happen with my Cruise with udK R0 (the italian one) equipped, even after an hard reset.
I'm looking for a fix, too.
Click to expand...
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partially solved installing a touch keyboard/keypad found in this forum. Now I have a working black keyboard (instead of a white one)
Another bug/issue: when I write an SMS in the "To" field, after pressing few characters it used to show the contacts available with those few input.
Now, instead, I have to insert some characters, and then click "Menus- Check Names".
Is there a way to have it back the auto fill in the "To" field?

I have the same problem as you...really annoying to have to go to contacts first and then pres SMS rather than go to SMS and write SMS and then choose contact. Can't figure out what's wrong =(

claudioita said:
partially solved installing a touch
Another bug/issue: when I write an SMS in the "To" field, after pressing few characters it used to show the contacts available with those few input.
Now, instead, I have to insert some characters, and then click "Menus- Check Names".
Is there a way to have it back the auto fill in the "To" field?
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Click to collapse
I have the same issue.. any help would be good

Ok i have solved my issue. I installed Bepe's rom.. then installed the HTC original keyboard cab. Then i disabled the xT9 via a reg edit and now word suggestion and check names works.. phew.. its taken me a bit of trial and error... but its all good now..

Key remap

Hello,
I tried Search button first, so if there is a topic already, please can you post the link?
Anyway.
I'm from czech republic and I'm very used to qwertz keyboard layout instead of qwerty. Is there any posibility to swap Y and Z on HW keyboard? I already tried change keyboard layout to czech (using this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=446449) but it didnt help.
I would very much appreciate if someone can help me.
Thanks in advance

Don't know if you checked this (in czech):
http://forum.semania.cz/index.php?topic=19323.0
For non-czech speakers .. the post above (here on XDA-developers) says how to SWITCH the layout. Here is the method how the modify it.
There should be simple readeble text file in the phone at path:
Phone\Windows\sym.0409.txt
(replace your locale code, see the post above).
In this file, replace any characters to obtain modified layout. Haven't tried by myself though.

Thank you, but
as far as I understood this file only changes characters that are offered by pressing "àű" right after some character - I mean when you press A you get à after first press of "àű" button and á after second press of "àű" button etc.
I'd like to change the layout from qwerty to qwertz. Just swap Y/Z, nothing more.
Any other ideas?

you need AEKMap.
I did this for my i780, just check the link in my sig.
you have to do the same for the X1, but i am not sure if the keycodes are identical. just try it out.

Thanks very much, this actualy works. I only wonder if it will slow down my device in some way.

it doesn't slow down my i780 and it is super lightweight.
you can also rearrange your czeck special letters in the sym txt file like others have pointed out. should give you a fully working, localized keyboard.

If all you want is to exchange Y and Z, go to the link in you first post and change the code to german layout. it works!

Well, that was the first think I thought of. But there are too many changes in the layout. So that was no option for me. but thanks for idea
btw. this AEkmap doesnt work in text boxes on pages in opera mobile.

I780 keyboard mapping problem

Hi all,
I have upgraded my mobile to PDXHL2 and everything works fine (my i780 has Eng and arabic Keyboard).
My problem in the keyboard!!!
I have the mail symbol on the keyboard if I press it; it will show as GPS shortcut (in other country)...anyway next to this botton is "." and "!" botton
if I press it when writing it will open the mail box/sms and I can't find the dot "." botton!!!
in the left of the "0" botton I have "AB" which it should be used to switch between the langauge (It needs for my case Arabic installation)
Sorry for my long message but just want to change the keyboard back like before
Thx

Anyone can help...
in addition....If I install Arabic the keyboard (external) wont work proberly

Try asking your question here or Q&A forum on XDA-dev:
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=100402

Thx...I'll try

Did you find the solution to the keypad mapping???

Nop...!!!
I'll post now on PPCSG

I couldn't post it there...I'm wondering why?
Maybe I have to write 10 atricles?
Can someone help?
++++++++++++++
Now I post it...it was activation issue

No one reply...!!!
No Answers...it seems I'm the only one having this problem?
Ok can Any one get me keybad or keyboard layouts files so I can replace it in my mobile?
Any Idea?

Adding keys for QWERTY? help

Hi, i just wanted to ask for help, because im from Spain and need the "Ñ" key and i also want the "_" key on my QWERTY keyboard. As soon as i saw that there werent those 2 keys, i was wondering if there's an application that makes me configure normal keys (like Z,X,C, those who doesnt have blue letters) so that i make them also have "blue letter", like Ñ or those things
would be very nice since i only use qwerty for writing sms
thank you !

try x1bc. you can associate fn+a (,b,c,d,f,z,x,c,v) to any letter (or program)