r2 had the Pinyin IME. r3 also includes a japanese IME. As mentioned above, the Latin one adapts itself to the selected Locale to change the layout of the keys to match the selected Locale.
Note however that you may have more than one IME enabled, and I'm not sure if each IME can declare itself to support a range of Locale. It's possible the Latin one is the default no matter the Locale. (This is for the emulator, as mentioned above, devices shipping in particular markets will be configured to have the IME properly enabled). Try the following: long press in a text field and you'll see the list of available IMEs, this will allow you to select which one to use. Alternatively you can also go in the setting, under Text and only enable the Chinese or Japanese one. Xav On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:52 PM, incognito<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Also -- because I just found this out -- the built-in soft keyboard is >> international, at least for common European languages. >> For example, to do the ö (as in Malmö, a city in Sweden), long-tap the o >> key on the soft keyboard, and you'll get a small pop-up with o's with >> various diacriticals (umlaut, accent, tilde, etc.). > > Thanks! I didn't know that. I just tried it and it works. I long- > pressed the n character and got the Spanish n with a dash on top of > it. So I guess the built in keyboard handles all (if not most) Latin > languages. That is good to know. Now I need to figure out how to > handle Chinese derived languages along with other Asian languages. At > least I will be able to support several Latin languages. > > On Jul 20, 5:27 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: >> incognito wrote: >> > My question basically is why are there no native international input >> > soft keyboards in Android 1.5r2? >> >> Also -- because I just found this out -- the built-in soft keyboard is >> international, at least for common European languages. >> >> For example, to do the ö (as in Malmö, a city in Sweden), long-tap the o >> key on the soft keyboard, and you'll get a small pop-up with o's with >> various diacriticals (umlaut, accent, tilde, etc.). >> >> The letters offering such variants have an ellipsis showing in the >> lower-right corner of the, um, Scrabble tile preview thingy that appears >> when you tap the key. >> >> It may be the LatinIME keyboard also makes intelligent choices based >> upon locale, though I haven't tried that. >> >> That at least covers *some* of your bases, though. >> >> -- >> Mark Murphy (a Commons >> Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy >> >> _Beginning Android_ from Apress Now Available! > > > -- Xavier Ducrohet Android Developer Tools Engineer Google Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
