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[Q] Can't type accented polish characters on dock keyboard

Hello,
I just installed OmniROM version 4.4.2 on my Asus TF300t and it works great. I mean speed gain is
unbelievable. Altough I have two issues:
- it does not show how much dock is charged and I would call it minor issue (altough CMB has it)
- I can't write polish characters on dock keyboard (asusdec) if I type ALT + character - nothing happens.
If I change layout to let say Czech - it shows Czech characters, but there is no option to choose polish
layout. And that is unfortunately show stopper.
So is it possible to fix that issue in any way?
Thanks!

Why not use a 3rd party keyboard?
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Thank you!
maxwen said:
Why not use a 3rd party keyboard?
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Hello!
You are completly right - I could use that and it is what I am doing now (altough I have some
security concerns). But I am really stomped that Polish keyboard is not included in any release
I was testing (CM, CMB, OmniROM, AOKP) based on KitKat.
Is there a reason for that?
Thank you for your help

Switching keyboard IME from Samsung ChineseIME back to Google Keyboard

I normally use Google Keyboard US with Swype enable to write my text messages.
But sometimes I need to input Chinese characters, therefore I switch from my (main) google keyboard (in which I use swype) to Samsung Chinese IME.
This is simply achieved with 1 step: I simply click on the keyboard icon showing a world-globe (left from space bar and right from "," and I select Samsung Chinese IME.
Doing so the Samsung Chinese IME automatically becomes the default keyboard.
In order to switch back, since the world-globe icon is NOT ANYMORE there, under Samsung IME, I need to:
1. go to settings
2. clinck on My Device
3. click on Language and input > here I see that the default keyboard is NOT Samsunch Chinese IME
4. Select English (US) Google Keyboard
Only after 4 steps I am able to revert back to my google swype keyboard!
Is there a shortcut?

I am trialing SlideIT, but it seems that it does NOT contain Chinese IME.
Same goes for Google IME: it has many languages, bit NOT Chinese...at least on my version.
Thank you!
Saulo

saulo866 said:
I am trialing SlideIT, but it seems that it does NOT contain Chinese IME.
Same goes for Google IME: it has many languages, bit NOT Chinese...at least on my version.
Thank you!
Saulo
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If you know a way to add Chinese to my Google Keyboard, than I would have solved my problems..
Thank you
Saulo

I am trying another IME, called SwiftKey, but it does NOT offer Chinese input...
So I still need to switch back and forth from google keyboard to Samsung Chinese IME...
Please any idea?

No ideas on how to make the switching among IME Keyboards?

saulo866 said:
No ideas on how to make the switching among IME Keyboards?
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I haven't get any more replies, so let me ask a different question: does anybody know a SWYPE style keyboard capable to input Chinese in addition to English and French?
Thank you!
Saulo

I think Google keyboard supports Chinese, just google it, or take a look at the play store...
For other keyboards, try Swype keyboard or Xperia keyboard (this one you can find here in xda).
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Halo keyboard

Is it possible to change the keyboard layout? E.g. Between azerty or qwerty?

If you select different languages for the keyboard.
Just press CTRL-SPACE to switch between languages.
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Even layouts like Hindi or Tamil
reiter123 said:
If you select different languages for the keyboard.
Just press CTRL-SPACE to switch between languages.
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Does it create layouts like Hindi and Tamil too? Or is this layout fixed to a particular ones like English, French etc? Thinking of buying one if it shows up all layouts that are supported natively in Windows 10.

solomonsunder said:
Does it create layouts like Hindi and Tamil too? Or is this layout fixed to a particular ones like English, French etc? Thinking of buying one if it shows up all layouts that are supported natively in Windows 10.
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My post was for the Android Version. I don't know if this is true for Windows 10th too.
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That works only in Android Version

halo keyboard defaults to uk layout

I am a user from bulgaria so my halo keyboard has a bulgarian BDS layout and the international US key layout.
however it always wants to default to uk layout messing up the special chars (both qwerty but special chars are located differently). even after removing uk english as language it always gets added back.
anyone else with multilingual layouts having the same issue ?
What i also noticed is that when you use touchpal and switch the languages it enforces the uk layout when switching back to English.
it is somewhat annoying to always pay attention when switching the language.
cheers,
fozz

Dear Fozz,
I am running the android Yoga Book with german QWERTZ Halo keyboard and am running in somewhat similiar issues. The keyboard layout is changed (without any visual feedback) by pressing SHIFT+SPACEBAR. This unfortunately happens quite frequently due to my typing style. However this also should be a quick workaround for you - once special characters are wrongly mapped, just press the combination and type on.
I am also trying to use other keyboard software (swiftkey) to ease this issue, but it seems to be part of the Halo drivers (tried to remove the uk map, it will reappear everytime).
Regards
Hans
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Changing virtual Keyboard on Android

Hi!
Perhaps I'm being stupid and there is a way I cannot find but it's there. But I'm unable to discover how can I set different keyboards for the halo and the virtual one.
I would not like the same actions on both. For example, when in Halo, no autocorrection - specially on another language -, no auto capital letters after period, no space after inserted word, etc...) and I can adjust everything properly with the pal keyboard that comes with the tablet (and probably that will be the best working with this keyboard). But I would prefer thousand times to use the google keyboard when in tab mode, writing on the virtual keyboard. Not only I'm used to it, and it's the ones I use on my phone (so, it's more comfortable to have the same behaviour), but really I like it much more, and also I can have it configured in a different way (with autocorrection, space after word insert, and so on) that makes sense for me in a virtual keyboard, but not in a physical (or nearly physical) one like the Halo.
¿Any suggestion? Would be something that would make my experience with this tab wonderful...
Thx

nachordez said:
Hi!
Perhaps I'm being stupid and there is a way I cannot find but it's there. But I'm unable to discover how can I set different keyboards for the halo and the virtual one.
I would not like the same actions on both. For example, when in Halo, no autocorrection - specially on another language -, no auto capital letters after period, no space after inserted word, etc...) and I can adjust everything properly with the pal keyboard that comes with the tablet (and probably that will be the best working with this keyboard). But I would prefer thousand times to use the google keyboard when in tab mode, writing on the virtual keyboard. Not only I'm used to it, and it's the ones I use on my phone (so, it's more comfortable to have the same behaviour), but really I like it much more, and also I can have it configured in a different way (with autocorrection, space after word insert, and so on) that makes sense for me in a virtual keyboard, but not in a physical (or nearly physical) one like the Halo.
¿Any suggestion? Would be something that would make my experience with this tab wonderful...
Thx
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For the virtual one, while typing mode (cursor on a field) look at the lower right of your taskbar. You should see a keyboard icon click it and set the input methods and settings there.

Yes, thanks, I'm aware of that. I meant to set different keyboards for virtual and physycal, not chainging each time...It seems not possible. It's a pitty. For spanish writing, dead keys are needen for accented vowels (á, é, ...) and it does not work properly in this keyboard on any keyboard but the special TouchPal that comes with the tab. But this is not a very comfortable virtual keyboard (and you have to disable adding spaces or capital letters to have a natural typing when physical). So I will have to change between them each time I change from physical to virtual. Fortunately, I'm doing most things on the halo, so I can manage.
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nachordez said:
Yes, thanks, I'm aware of that. I meant to set different keyboards for virtual and physycal, not chainging each time...It seems not possible. It's a pitty. For spanish writing, dead keys are needen for accented vowels (á, é, ...) and it does not work properly in this keyboard on any keyboard but the special TouchPal that comes with the tab. But this is not a very comfortable virtual keyboard (and you have to disable adding spaces or capital letters to have a natural typing when physical). So I will have to change between them each time I change from physical to virtual. Fortunately, I'm doing most things on the halo, so I can manage.
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Try swiftkey.

Orion116 said:
Try swiftkey.
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Thanks, but that's not the point. As virtual keyboards there are many that work fine (I use google one, and love it).
The problem is that the Halo keyboard is not a real one, and when not in international English Qwerty (mine is Spanish) does the accented related things in a non standard way (first it drows the special accent character like ´ and then mixes it with the vowel, to give á or é or so. That's not how dead keys really work. It seems like a strange personalization of the keyboard for another languages that only works with its provided TouchPal. So, no other keyboard will work for writing in Spanish with Halo (and mine is physically impressed in Spanish, and I write usually in Spanish, so, I have no other option). But the adjustments, like the auto capitals and correction, added spaces and so (and the own TouchPal, that does not fit me as a virtual keyboard) to make it work fine as a "real" keyboard, are not good for a virtual one. So, I have to change among two different keyboards when I go for laptop mode to screen one.
Google keyboard, as a matter of fact, does fine with the halo. It needs no special adjustments, understands properly how works a real keyboard and a virtual one, needing no special adjustments... but cannot handle the á é í .... characters (basic in Spanish) because of the non standard procedure by the Halo. So, it's my choice for the virtual, but does not work (unless I'm writing english and don't need the accented characters) with halo.
I probably could use External Keyboard Helper to manage also efficiently dead keys (it's so programmable...), but, once again, would be useful just for Halo, but has no virtual interface.
So, I see that there is no option to have two different default keyboard apps for virtual and Halo, and that makes me to have to change continuously between both.
It's a pitty. Don't think that should be difficult to implement by Lenovo, and would have made live much more easy, really...
Thx