asked 2014-06-24 18:56:06 +0200
qwertz is used in Germany and Switzerland, but 1/3 of Swiss country speaks french and use the qwertz keyboard. I have to use the french azerty keyboard to get the dictionnary but it would be fine to provide the qwertz keyboard with french dictionnary on a further release.
answered 2014-06-25 01:36:10 +0200
You will find here the qwertz keyboard with french dictionnary :
https://openrepos.net/content/penguin/french-swiss-keyboard <= Not valid anymore, the new version is here :
https://openrepos.net/content/ichthyosaurus/patch-swiss-french-keyboard-layout
THIS KEYBOARD IS NOT SUPPORTED ANYMORE No offense to Jordi, just a warning to new users
Maximilian1st ( 2019-08-12 12:49:34 +0200 )editThanks @Maximilian1st for pointing out. I edited my answer with a new link.
Jordi ( 2019-08-12 13:24:17 +0200 )editanswered 2015-08-04 17:48:28 +0200
As the previous answer is no more valid (the french qwertz keyboard is no more compatible with recent os version) I try the keyboard Qwertz which is using german language. Then I just change the "DE" to "FR" in the file /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/custom-qwertz.conf. Reboot the device! and voilà! Choosing "Qwertz" as keyboard layout give me also access to the french dictionnary.
No because in Switzerland we use a keyboard derived from the german one and not from the "AZERTY" french keyboard. In the french speaking part of Switzerland we need a french dictionnary. Then Azerty is useless and the qwertz is the good one. Plus all the accents that I need are provided by these qwertz keyboard. So definitively forget about Azerty for CH-fr keyboard. It looks ugly to us! ;-)
Thoric ( 2015-08-08 14:14:06 +0200 )editanswered 2015-08-05 14:34:04 +0200
Creating a layout isn't so hard, the language code (FR in this case) is enough for the dictionary to work. I can make it for you, as I did for some languages, but you need to enable the developer mode to start using it (i.e. to copy the QML to the file system; I don't know how to package it as RPM).
First of all, download this zip file. Extract it and copy QML and CONF files to your /home (/home/nemo).
From Settings app, enable Developer mode and then enable Remote connection and make a password.
Then open Terminal and copy QML and CONF files to the file system using devel-su cp fr_ch.{conf,qml} /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/. Enter the password you set for remote connection. The password characters will be invisible in Terminal.
Restart maliit-server: systemctl --user restart maliit-server.service
For Sailfish 2.0 they change the place so you need
cp fr_qwertz.{qml,conf} /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/
(note the /com/)
Also there's something wrong in the layout. you shouldn't have ç and M has to be next to N, at least with the sample done, I can hack them.
tigerfoot ( 2015-09-27 17:29:32 +0200 )edit@tigerfoot, thanks for your feedback. That missing /com was my fault and I didn't know about ç. Let me correct it.
AliN ( 2015-09-27 20:39:58 +0200 )editanswered 2014-06-24 19:56:32 +0200
They probably will at some place in time but for now you will have to tinker a little bit to change the keyboard to fit your needs. I also use the Swiss keyboard so I know the problem. http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=91917
answered 2015-09-30 23:46:03 +0200
Based on the Dolphin Keyboard with color emoji made by saberaltria, I modified 3 files to have a working Swiss-French keyboard. Here are the instructions:
Install the Dolphin keyboard core, from Openrepos.
Install the Dolphin keyboard English + color emoji, from Openrepos.
Put these 3 files files in the folder /home/nemo/Documents/
And then, with the terminal, copy each of these 3 files in the appropriate folder using the 3 following commands:
cp /home/nemo/Documents/fr+.qml /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/fr+.qml
cp /home/nemo/Documents/fr+.conf /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/fr+.conf
cp /home/nemo/Documents/Xt9Handler.qml /usr/share/maliit/plugins/com/jolla/layouts/Xt9Handler.qml
Start the app Dolphin core and press Restart service.
That's it!
Asked: 2014-06-24 18:56:06 +0200
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Last updated: Aug 12 '19
By the way, your post is somehow a duplicate of this one https://together.jolla.com/question/1189/keyboard-layouts-possible-to-provide-in-jolla-store/
Maximilian1st ( 2014-06-24 19:57:40 +0200 )edit@lavariya thought by french that is azerty, by smartphone too....
cemoi71 ( 2015-08-05 10:36:21 +0200 )edit