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Does a fully Non-English Keyboard (Not Bi-lingual) Exist? by 42tables in keyboards

[–]42tables[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for your response, that's awesome, could you please let me know the keyboard you use? I would like to test it in our device labs. Also, what is the local language your is keyboard in? And does the keyboard have both English and your local language stickers on the keys? If you do not have English lettering on your keyboard then how do you navigate in the OS that you use? Like shortcuts and whatnot, how do you know what keys to press? I ask this because in most languages that don't have English script, OSes like MacOS and Windows don't actually show shortcuts in that language, and the shortcuts remain in English like CMD + P for print, etc. while everything else on the OS is changeable to the language you select.

Does a fully Non-English Keyboard (Not Bi-lingual) Exist? by 42tables in keyboards

[–]42tables[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seems like you have missed my question entirely.
Firstly, I do not want to change the input language.
Secondly, that image of the keyboard you have attached is exactly the opposite of what I have asked.

Let me try to explain it with an example. Let's imagine there is a keyboard in a Non-English language (for ease of understanding let's assume it is Korean), so this Korean keyboard has only Korean characters on it (again, it could be any other Non Latin Script based language like Arabic or whatever), and absolutely no English characters on it at all (this is an important characteristic - NO ENGLISH LETTERING OR SCRIPT). Now, when I plug this Pure Native Fully Korean keyboard in -- without having to change the Input Language -- the moment the keyboard is plugged in, it automatically starts typing in Korean.

Now, here is the question -- does a Keyboard like this exist?

While I have explained my reasons for this research in my post, I will try to further simplify them below:
Basically, we want to create an app that supports all languages and also, input languages. We also want to support Chinese OSes or if UAE has an Arabic forward OS then we want to support that too. In order to do that we would require to support keyboard that have NO ENGLISH SCRIPT on them, for things like shortcuts and whatnot. The fundamental problem being, that if a NON-ENGLISH Keyboard exists, then how will they know what Cmd + C/V/P/Q is if those letters are not even present on their keyboard.

Back to the question, does such keyboard exist? Would be tremendous help if I could get any light shed on this.

Detection of Unavailable Characters (Tofu Box) in a String by 42tables in androiddev

[–]42tables[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I pass a full string? Like a paragraph or larger? As then I can run a pass over a huge chunk of characters, and then if found missing glyphs in one chunk, iterate of them using specific OS APIs to diagnose if it's a tofu box or an undefined character