How to add a Dutch dictionary? [released]

answered 2014-12-17 01:15:50 +0200

willemlaurentz
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As fellow Dutchman I wanted to turn off the English dictionary when typing in Dutch.

Apparently it is not possible to add your own dictionary files to the keyboard. The dictionairies are included in - what seems to be - a compiled file.

However, if you add a new virtual keyboard layout and set the language to a non-supported language (I used NL), then the keyboard will no longer mix up word/spelling suggestions. I think it is better to not have any suggestions from a language you're not typing in.

To add a keyboard you should log on to the device and go to:

cd /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts

There I copied the English keyboard layout into a new file that I named "nl.qml":

cp en.qml nl.qml

Then you should edit the layouts.conf file, to make Jolla aware that there is a new keyboard in town. I used vi to do this:

vi nl.qml

Then add to the end of the file:

[nl.qml]
name=Nederlands
languageCode=NL

To make your new keyboard available in the Jolla settings you must restart the keyboard daemon by executing this command as root (or by turning your device off and on):

 killall maliit-server