Extra Physical Keyboard Layouts

To România and beyond!

Adds a few choices to the list of layouts to use when a physical keyboard is connected e.g. via OTG or Bluetooth.

Please star this issue if you agree that Android should support these layouts out of the box: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/155769655

Tested layouts:

• Albanian
• Armenian Phonetic
• Armenian Typewriter
• Azeri Cyrillic
• Bangla Jatiya ¹
• Bashkir
• Belarusian
• Belgian (Comma)
• Belgian (Period)
• Bosnian (Cyrillic)
• Bulgarian (Phonetic Traditional)
• Bulgarian (Phonetic)
• Canadian French
• Colemak
• Czech (QWERTZ)
• Divehi Phonetic
• Dutch
• Halmak
• Hindi Traditional INSCRIPT ¹
• Jawi Phonetic QWERTY
• Polish (Programmers)
• Portuguese (Magic keyboard)
• Romanian Programmers
• Romanian Standard
• Swedish Dvorak (Svorak A1)
• Thai Kedmanee
• Thai TIS 820-2538

Experimental - not tested:

• ABC - Latin alphabetical order
• Azeri Latin
• Arabic 102 AZERTY ¹
• Assamese INSCRIPT ¹
• Bengali ¹
• Bengali INSCRIPT ¹
• Bulgarian Typewriter
• Canadian Multilingual Standard
• Cherokee nation ¹
• Czech (QWERTY)
• Czech Programmers
• Divehi Typewriter
• English (India)
• Faeroese
• Finnish with Sami
• Georgian (Ergonomic)
• Georgian (MES)
• Georgian (QWERTY)
• German (IBM)
• Greek (220)
• Greek (220) Latin
• Greek (319) Latin
• Greek Latin
• Greenlandic
• Gujarati ¹
• Hausa
• Hawaiian
• Hebrew (Standard)
• Hungarian 101 QWERTY
• Inuktitut Latin
• Irish
• Italian (142)
• Jawi SIRIM ¹
• Kannada ¹
• Kazakh
• Khmer ¹
• Khmer Nida ¹
• Korean
• Kyrgyz Cyrillic
• Kurdish Hejar https://klpp.github.io/hejar.html ¹
• Kurdish KRG http://unicode.ekrg.org/download/UnifiedKeyboardProject_enGB.pdf ¹
• Lao ¹
• Latin American
• Latvian (QWERTY)
• Lisu Basic
• Lisu Standard
• Lithuanian IBM
• Lithuanian Standard
• Luxembourgish
• Macedonian (FYROM)
• Macedonian (FYROM) - Standard
• Malayalam ¹
• Maltese 47-Key
• Maltese 48-Key
• Maori
• Marathi ¹
• Mongolian (Mongolian Script)
• Mongolian Cyrillic
• Myanmar
• Nepali
• Neo 2 ²
• New Tai Lue
• Norwegian with Sami
• N’Ko
• Odia ¹
• Ogham
• Pashto (Afghanistan)
• Persian standard ¹
• Phags Pa ¹
• Punjabi ¹
• Russian (Typewriter)
• Russian Phonetic YaWert
• Sakha ¹
• Sami Extended Finland-Sweden
• Sami Extended Norway
• Scottish Gaelic
• Santali (Sarjom baha - phonetic Ol' Chiki script)
• Serbian (Cyrillic)
• Serbian (Latin)
• Sesotho sa Leboa
• Setswana
• Sinhala ¹
• Slovak (QWERTY)
• Slovak (QWERTZ)
• Sorbian Extended
• Sorbian Standard
• Spanish variation
• Swedish with Sami
• Syriac
• Syriac Phonetic
• Tajik
• Tamil ¹
• Tamil 99
• Tatar
• Telugu ¹
• Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock)
• Thai Pattachote
• Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock)
• Tifinagh basic ¹
• Tifinagh extended ¹
• Turkish F
• Turkish Q
• Turkmen
• US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L
• Ukrainian (Enhanced)
• United States-Dvorak for left hand
• United States-Dvorak for right hand
• Urdu
• Uyghur ¹
• Uzbek Cyrillic
• Vietnamese
• Wolof

¹ For some of the layouts, combo key ligatures that on other OSs can be typed by shift+numbers are not directly supported. Instead, you'll have to type the components individually.

For Hindi for example on a QWERTY keyboard, instead of shift + 3 you have to type D+J

• D J ्र
• J D र्
• P D SHIFT+] ज्ञ
• L D J त्र
• K D SHIFT+, क्ष

For Jawi SIRIM, the B key does not type anything. and you should be able to reproduce its behavior by typing G followed by H and G followed by SHIFT + N

• G H لا
• G SHIFT + N لآ
• G SHIFT + H لأ
• G SHIFT + Y لإ

For Lao

• A H => LAO VOWEL SIGN MAI KAN + LAO TONE MAI THO
• B H => LAO VOWEL SIGN Y + LAO TONE MAI THO
• N H => LAO VOWEL SIGN YY + LAO TONE MAI THO
• Q H => LAO VOWEL SIGN MAI KON + LAO TONE MAI THO
• Y H => LAO VOWEL SIGN II + LAO TONE MAI THO
• U H => LAO VOWEL SIGN I + LAO TONE MAI THO
• = J => LAO NIGGAHITA + LAO TONE MAI EK
• s^ => LAO LETTER HO SUNG + LAO SEMIVOWEL SIGN LO ↩

For Kurdish KRG:

• وو <= و و you have to press the key twice, no shift
• shift H => ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER, to be used in combination with ھ

² Neo 2's 4th level is severely crippled while not locked because in order to access level 4 you need to press the right alt key, and the right alt key in combination with level 4 directions results in unexpected behavior. So try level 4 navigation only by locking.

Also, locking isn't working as you're used to: press the start / windows key to lock level 4. Press scroll lock to lock level 2.

The following features are not available in android:

• compose (triggered by TAB in level 3)
• undo functionality (triggered by Z in level 4)
• rotate key

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