Hi All
I live in Quebec and I just got myself a shiny NS. However, there is no option for a french canadian keyboard in the settings, only the azerty french keyboard. Is there an easy way to enable this language?
Thanks!!!
I don't live in Quebec but I wouldn't mind knowing the answer to this. I've read somewhere that Slideit keyboard from the market has a French Canadian Keyboard but I really wouldn't count on it til I tried it and last time I checked you had to pay for it. The only one I've tried is from the seeARM swype keyboard from his Galaxy S JL2 Rom but how to get it to work on the Nexus S I'm not sure but it was nice to have on the SGS.
edit: I have swipe beta on the Nexus S so maybe it can be ported over....not sure how but if someone here has any ideas it very well could work. seeARM hasn't been around in quite a while but might be able to run it on the Nexus somehow.
CraneGuy said:
I don't live in Quebec but I wouldn't mind knowing the answer to this. I've read somewhere that Slideit keyboard from the market has a French Canadian Keyboard but I really wouldn't count on it til I tried it and last time I checked you had to pay for it. The only one I've tried is from the seeARM swype keyboard from his Galaxy S JL2 Rom but how to get it to work on the Nexus S I'm not sure but it was nice to have on the SGS.
edit: I have swipe beta on the Nexus S so maybe it can be ported over....not sure how but if someone here has any ideas it very well could work. seeARM hasn't been around in quite a while but might be able to run it on the Nexus somehow.
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Swype already works fine on the Nexus S. You cannot distribute Swype, it's illegal on XDA.
Check out keyboard alternatives, they most likely have what you're looking for. Alternatives such as Smart Keyboard Pro and Swiftkey.
I wasn't trying to distribute Swype, just trying to mention the only french canadian keyboard I'd seen so far....as being french canadian anyway since they are few and far between.
Thanks. I am aware of the alternative keyboards available but I would have liked to stick with the stock keyboard as I find it pretty nice!
I'll report here if I find a way.
Hi, I'm from Quebec too and I'll share some information that might be useful to other French-canadians Nexus S users.
First, I noticed the Nexus S doesn't have a French (Canada), which can be an issue with the News and Weather widget. I will explain how to take care of that.
Put your system language in French by going in the following menus
Settings > Language & keyboard > Select language > Français
Now you'll notice that the language is set to Français (France)
The problem now is that by having this language set, you automatically get an AZERTY keyboard.
Install the following application (Using the Barcode Scanner application from the Android Market)
Once it's installed, you'll have a new application called Paramètres régionaux. Open it up, press on the context menu button and press on Add Locale.
Put the following informations in the Add Locale popup:
Label: français (Canada)
Language: fr
Country: CA
Variant: <empty>
Now, to have a QWERTY keyboard, go in the following menus
Paramètres > Langue et clavier > Clavier Android > Langues de saisie > English (United States) (only have this keyboard checked)
Now you should have a french operating system, with a QWERTY keyboard and the News and Weather (Actualités et Météo) application that now gets Canadian-related news instead of France news.
Thanks for the great post. However, I wanted an english operating system with a qwerty with french and english dictionnary/autocomplete!
I finally found a way : install CM7. With this ROM you have all the dictionnary/locale you want!
Jackojack
Still nothing ?
Same new nexus S ( add to that a fresh scratch on the flimsiest screen I've ever touched ) but no french canadian keyboard. I'm can't stand the french OS.
But still need to type in french...
Nothing new ?
Thanks !
Before flashing CM7, I briefly used an app named "Gingerbread Keyboard" or something similar, that was free on Android Market and had a number of additional locales like French Canada (so QWERTY), or French QWERTZ which is used in Switzerland.
Another option with the stock rom (with alt. recovery so as to be able to mount /system in read-write mode) is to use adb to remove LatinIME.apk from /system/data and push the one from cm7 into the same location.
To get the apk you'll need to download cm7, unzip it and find the apk there.
Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk
wrick01 said:
Jackojack
Still nothing ?
Same new nexus S ( add to that a fresh scratch on the flimsiest screen I've ever touched ) but no french canadian keyboard. I'm can't stand the french OS.
But still need to type in french...
Nothing new ?
Thanks !
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My understanding is that you can use the English keyboard (qwerty) with french autocorrect. You can add additional languages in the keyboard settings and then toggle languages by swiping the spacebar. The French Canadian keyboard is just a qwerty with extended character set for accented letters. Your keyboard wont show the extended characters anyway due to the size.
Hi -
I use Swiftkey on a regular basis as that was always the only keyboard that could keep up with the way I type, however since they got rid of the "rapid typing" feature with version 4.0 I've been looking for other options.
I use two languages interchangeably (english and spanish) and have always liked how Swiftkey allowed me to type in either language without having to toggle to that particular language, either through a dedicated key (EN or SP) or by sliding my thumb across the space bar, both of which I find annoying. But I haven't been able to find another keyboard that let's me use either language "on the fly" - is there a decent one out there? I feel like I've tried them all.
Samsung Galaxy S4 on AT&T - stock everything.
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 from the Japanese carrier Docomo. The stock keyboard is set to English, Japanese, and Korean only. I would like to know if there's a way to add the Latin keyboard to the stock languages list or just replace the Korean for the Latin.
After more than 4 years as an IOS user I'm very satisfied with my first Android device, I'm not 100% satisfied with it just because the keyboard function is not as good as the IOS's.
Thanks in advance for your time and help.
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I'm using a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 from the Japanese carrier Docomo. The stock keyboard is set to English, Japanese, and Korean only. I would like to know if there's a way to add the Latin keyboard to the stock languages list or just replace the Korean for the Latin.
After more than 4 years as an IOS user I'm very satisfied with my first Android device, I'm not 100% satisfied with it just because the keyboard function is not as good as the IOS's.
Thanks in advance for your time and help.
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bro use the keyboards available from playstre.... dey dnt have any problms or issue like this n u can get any language yu want...hope i hlped yu
I've already downloaded and tried some keyboards from the Playstore, none of them worked as I expected.
I really wanted to add the original Spanish option to the keyboard stock list so I can type letters with accents from the original keyboard by a long press.
Try morelocale 2, It could work and supports Android 4.2 but you will need root access on your phone.
Google play store link : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.c_lis.ccl.morelocale
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows of any edits (rooted) I can make that would allow the stock MM (6.0.1) to give me all available languages rather than just the stock? I'm looking to add Japanese to my list of languages -- system wide that is, not just input -- but no matter what I do, it only gives me the stock languages. I've tried More Locale which doesn't release the languages to me and Language Enabler. I would love the native Japanese system language and well, the option to use any language I want.
EDIT: Deleting and changing the language.xml in System/csc doesn't work for me either.
Thanks
Hello friends.
I need Serbian Cyrillic input language which is not available in list of languages in Samsung keyboard. How I can add it, so it will be available in my multi input Samsung keyboard? There is also other applications (like Google keyboard and Swift key) that have required languages but I prefer Samsung keyboard because it has better way of learning predictive input from personalised database.