[MOD] Lang characters for hardware keyboard v0.3 [NOR|ESP]

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Hi all!

After searching the wide web of the world I didn't find anyone who cared to program the special characters for nordic keyboards (æ,ø and å). The norwegian stock ROM has got these mapped to own keys, but I've never liked to use stock ROMs, so I was stuck with the "long press method".

New! Now Spanish is also supported!

If you screw up your phone trying to adb push, cp -f these files I'm not responsible yada yada yada (nothing wrong should happend, really)

What I've done is taking the modified files from teferi, and added my own editing for the quick keys (as I had to make place for the chars I removed from jkl) and the special chars of course.


Confirmed on my G2 (running the Sense ROM from MoDaCo), but should work for the Desire Z too! Any guinea pigs out there?

*Norwegian*
version 0.3:
-Fixed issue with , and ; didn't work on hardware keyboard. 

version 0.2:
Quick change to the "Z" button, since "`" is used in command substitutions.
-alt-z is still "^", alt-shift-z = "`"

version 0.1:

-alt+j,k,l = æ,ø,å (alt+shift gives capitol letter). 
- make ".com" a TAB key, as it ought to be
- left softkey is now "\" "|"  "/"
- right softkeys are now "[" "(" "<" and "]"  ")"  ">"
- alt-z is now "^"

*Spanish version*
Version 0.2
-Corrected filenames for the new files, and included the right "originals".

Version 0.1
[Key] - [Shift + key] - [FN + key] - [Shift + FN + key]

a - A - ! - á
e - E - 3 - é
i - I - 8 - í
o - O - 9 - ó
u - U - 7 - ú
n - N - = - ñ
? - ¿ - " - ¡
. - < - : - >

INSRUCTIONS:
*Add -wwe after "keypad" in the filename for both files if your running a Desire Z based ROM. CM and G2-based will work without -wwe*
- download file
- unzip *.zip
- adb push vision-keypad.kl /sdcard/
- adb push vision-keypad.kcm.bin /sdcard/
- adb shell
- su (if you don't have ro.secure turned off)
- mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p25 /system
- cp -f /sdcard/vision-keypad.kl /system/usr/keylayout/
- cp -f /sdcard/vision-keypad.kcm.bin /system/usr/keychars/
- reboot


Btw... backup of original keymapping is included... just rename them without .orig, and follow the procedure above

Guide to make your own keys:
Download a hex editor (i prefer xvi32), open the "kcm.bin", and alter the symbols shown in the attached .jpg. If you wish to alter the "main" char of the key, you can change that in the .kl file with notepad (check the difference between esp and nor to see an example).

Thanks to teferi for the base files

Originally Posted by Novek

I can make files for other special characters if someone wants that... or you could simply HEX-edit the files yourself

Great work! But, since I'm not Norwegian, I'm not going to try it

However, I'd love to see a modification of the original English Desire Z Sense keymap with just a few modifications.

Here's a picture of the Desire Z keyboard

http://www.theunwired.net/media/news...front_open.jpg

1) Getting á, é, í, ó and ú by Shift + FN + a, e, i, o, u (I think it's Shift + Alt in the G2 keyboard). Currently I have to long press the vowel key and then touching the screen. Not efficient.

2) Getting ¿ by using Shift + ? , and maybe ¡ by pressing Shift + FN + ?.

Would it be possible?

If you need the original files or whatever, just tell me

Thank you in advance.

I would need to get the original desire z keymapping files as I've just the g2... they are a little different with the non-letter keys.

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

Here it is

I've just uploaded a file with the two directories, keychars and keylayout.

I think it's interesting that there are several kcm.bin files and several kl files, for different languages, but I don't know how to select them.

Thank you again.

Actually... You can't keep both ! and "á" at the "A" key.... or at least you can't get the "á" capitol that way...

It would then be a, A, !, á available on that key.

Do you want me to remove the !, or...

I don't mind having to long press A to get the Á, I don't use it that often :)

cool. this is useful for me. I don't got the Nordic version so thanks

Originally Posted by Novek

Actually... You can't keep both ! and "á" at the "A" key.... or at least you can't get the "á" capitol that way...

It would then be a, A, !, á available on that key.

Do you want me to remove the !, or...

Novek, have you had time to look over the Spanish version?

No rush, just curious.

I've actually haven't had time today but I'll try to find some time tomorrow or wednesday...

Just found a bug in the norwegian mod (the comma button doesn't work) so I'll fix that tomorrow too...

Sent from my HTC Vision using XDA App

/edit

New version up with the , and ; working...

bra jobba!! my friend just go a desire z and he was looking for this