Ticket #310 (new new feature)
West European-specific characters for virtual keyboard
| Reported by: | Louvre | Owned by: | Buggins |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | bluesky |
| Component: | book reader (CoolReader) | Version: | post-0.1 snapshot |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocking: | Blocked By: |
Description
The english keyboard has at least 17 characters (signs and numbers) already present in the Russian keyboard. They could be replaced by letters missing for German, French, Italian, Spanish (and more) users. Or a third keyboard could be added. See here for Western Latin character sets.
Lower-case (minuscule) letters vital for French (and some of them also useful for German, Italian and Spanish):
Modified a: U+00E0 U+00E2 U+00E4
Modified e: U+00E9 U+00E8 U+00EA U+00EB
Modified i: U+00EE U+00EF
Modified c: U+00E7
Modified o: U+00F4 U+00F6
Modified u: U+00FB U+00FC
e inside o: U+0153
e inside a: U+00E6
Vital for German:
Double s (eszett): U+00DF
So with these 17 small letters you have French and German covered. Do we need the upper-case (majuscule) versions of these letters to be coded as well, or can these be coded to mean both lower and upper-case letters in the searches performed by the virtual keyboard?
I will add the Italian and Spanish later.
But already, the english keyboard could cover three languages instead of one. And be more useful for more countries and people learning those languages.

