HTC has designed its own Russian screen keyboard, and I must admit it is far better than Google keyboard, plus their devices are sold in Russia unlocked.
On Jul 21, 12:07 am, incognito <[email protected]> wrote: > Note: I originally posted this in the developers forum but now I think > this is probably a more appropriate place for this topic. > > My question basically is why are there no native international input > soft keyboards in Android 1.5r2? I tested this in the emulator by > changing my Locale to Chinese. I got all the text in Chinese just as > expected. Then I clicked on the google search box expecting a Chinese > keyboard to appear but only the English keyboard appeared. I tried > changing my locale to different languages like korean and Japanese and > still the English keyboard keeps showing up. > > Am I doing something wrong or am I just plain stupid? Please somebody > tell me (only if I'm doing something wrong). Has anybody been able to > get keyboards in other languages to work? They are selling this phones > in other countries right? How are they supporting input in other > languages like Chinese, Japanese, German, Spanish, Portuguese, etc. > etc.? > > This is bad, really bad. I need to write an app that allows a user to > enter text in multiple languages. > > And please don't tell me that I can implement my own keyboard. There > is no freaking way I'm implementing 50 different keyboards. It would > just be plain stupid. This is something that has to be supported > natively. > > I know, there are some third party keyboards out there but I think it > is a really bad idea to ask the user to go searching the web out there > for some 50 keyboards. And having a dependency on another developer is > just a bad idea. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
