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[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] afrika1:
7-bit alphabet.

Hi mate and really thanx a lot for providing this keyboard to us - you really have saved us (and given some sales to the manufacturing companies :p)

I started doing some serious texting because of the LGE900 I recently purchased. This was due to the fact it is so easy to type with it and due to some other reasons. Alas, I realized there was something very wrong with the way my mobile operator was charging me - I live in Greece, I use the Greek layout of your app and my provider is Vodafone Greece. What I finally realized is the issue with the length of unicode and non unicode sms and the use of 7-bit alphabet, as they are described in this page: smsmac.com/help/discover/about-sms/gsm7bit

After doing some experiments with Vodafone's own Greek keyboard app and seeing that it takes every single sms you'll type as a Unicode one, no matter what character it contains (even if it contains only Latin characters - wtf???), I turned to your own app and saw it is more honest than Vodafone's and that you can really achieve what is described in the page above: If you start typing Latin capital characters, the phone will wait for 160 characters before stitching a second sms - even if your sms contains these specific Greek capital characters as described in the above page (Ξ, Γ, Ψ, Ω etc.).

What I mean is that with the aid of your application, we are able to really use the 7-bit alphabet and not being charged for a single sms for every 60 characters we type. But, it is very difficult to do so, because we have to start typing something in (capital) Latin and go back and forth to the Greek keyboard in order to use the specific (capital) Greek characters etc.

So, with all due respect, is there any change that you build a special Greek keyboard named e.g. "7-bit", or whatever you like it that will contain only the capital Latin characters and the capital Greek ones? This way, we'll be able to type with it, of course in capitals, but we'll be saving the double cost of unicode sms's...

In case you do agree with it, allow me to tell you which letters are being replacing:

F: 0X12 (Φ)

G: 0X13 (Γ)

L: 0X14 (Λ)

V: 0X15 (Ω)

P: 0X16 (Π)

C: 0X17 (Ψ)

S: 0X18 (Σ)

U: 0X19 (Θ)

J: 0X1A (Ξ)

Regardless of your decision, allow me to thank you once more for providing us this fine app for yours.

Cheers,

George
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] smartmazila:
is there some plans for full working Georgian?

•Georgian (no font support, just a layout!)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] gzhkc:
Request, whether Chinese writing?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
I cannot add these languages, because they are require other input methods than a simple typing.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Try to restart the phone. The alternative characters may not work untill restart.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Look into "other keyboards - will be installed as Spanish (Honduras)".
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
OK. I will add the Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard.

Yes, at this moment it's for Samsung only.

Well, the keyboard is implemented. So you need to find a way to add Georgian fonts into the phone. It is not related to the keyboard.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
OK. I've added this into my TODO list.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Nowaynoway:
phone from T-mobile only have one keyboard and extending the English keyboard is really difficult to use.

the problem that every time when i switch to an alternative keyboard and starting writing, once i press the space the keyboard shift again to English and it keep doing this until i finish my writing.

how can i stop the keyboard from shifting back to English

note: this problem dose not exist when you replace a Spanish keyboard with an alternative keyboard.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
You cannot stop this. This layout is a workaround for the phones that have English keyboard only. I suppose this problem is HTC-only. Other manufacturers don't remove keyboards from the OS.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] fsnas:
Hey nowaynoway,

I had the same problem here with my HTC ..

the best and easiest thing to do is to make the Arabic keyboard the default and English is the extended keyboard..

this way it'll never shift!!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] idoprz:
suggestion

Hi,

i'm using the hebrew keyboard. I can see that if I click on a word I can add it to the phone dictionary.

Maybe there is a way to install a dictionary so that we get suggestions for words in the keyboard language?

I think it's a really cool functionality!

B.T.W

any news regarding the phone hangs and restart bug? it really anoying. I turn it off every night and forget to switch the keyboard to english before :mad:
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] alfa-batsi:
This is probably the best explanation I could find on the net of why WP7 does not support not only Georgian, but other unicode based fonts (read the last post):

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-are-not/dbf46158-63dd-4f08-bc3f-f3b7da01feba

So, I guess we (Complex Fonts Users) have to wait for Mango release, hopefully that will add support to full unicode...
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] djsolid:
You can send 160-chars messages that contains Greek Capital Letters that don't have an English equivalent like ΦΔΣ etc. But if you try to add a character like A or B then the message splits into smaller messages (70 chars max, each). So all you need to do is this:

Change every Greek capital letter with it's English equivalent, if any.

Greek A becomes English A,

Greek B becomes English B,

Greek Δ stays Δ etc...

By doing that you can send normal SMS's.

For now I tried that change in RegistryPatch.base.xml for uppercase letters and didn't work. Tried the same for lowercase letters and worked. Since I don't have the source I can't really tell why. But in the end I got a keyboard that can send 160-char messages but with no lowercase support which is fine by me!

Edit: Just added a couple of pics

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3230/dsc00082qe.jpg

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/4402/dsc00083ou.jpg
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
I have already implemented 7-bit Greek layouts for both 2.x and 3.x versions. I will upload the new versions very soon.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] djsolid:
Nice! Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Changes in v3.2/v2.15

Changes in v3.2:

New keyboards: Mongolian.

Greek: 7-bit layouts (160 characters per SMS).

Changes in v2.15:

New keyboards: Mongolian.

Greek: 7-bit layouts (160 characters per SMS).

Fixed: LG could experience a problem changing the registry after NoDo update.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] djsolid:
Thanks for the update!

Just some minor fixes.

Inside the xml of 7-bit change the following letters

Q -> ;

D -> Δ

R -> P (English letter P not Greek)

Once again thank you for your time!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] uristic:
so the problem with freezing and then auto reset when restarting the phone is still there ?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
OK. I'll update the layout.

Yes, it's still there.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] colossus_r:
Thanks m8 ...

2 questions

1: 3.2 version is working with samsung devices ???? And 2.15 is for HTC ..right ???

2: What option to choose to have Eng/Greek normal keyboard and 160 characters sms???

Edit ...

OK ... i figureout 1st question ... 2.15 working on htc devices

2nd question still stands
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] zenfreddy:
Chinese Keyboard?

great App THanks!! Lovin' it.

hope fully ther will be chinese keyboard ? Thanks :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
It isn't possible. You can use a single layout only.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] colossus_r:
Thanks for the answer m8....Not good for me but thanks anyway
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] afrika1:
Hi mate and thanks for the quick update,

As I wrote you via Paypal, I can't figure out how this "extends English keyboard" option is working, but the simple "instead of Spanish (7-bit)" is working, so I don't care much. As djsolid wrote, there is some mis-mapping, but this isn't a big problem, either. Unfortunately, the real big problem is with searching... Let's say you have your 200+ contacts transferred via Hotmail, which happen to be written with Greek characters. By the time you open People and start searching in them by typing some Greek characters, nothing is found, because the Greek characters you are typing are not Greek but Latin (with the exception of using the only real Greek ones, as Φ, Γ, Ξ etc.). For example, if you press the "T" character, only names that contain the English "T" letter are found. This brings us to the point that we do have a keyboard which allows us to type real 7-bit SMS's, but contains a small number of real Greek characters and because of that, it can not be used in other circumstances. So, it's up to you now to tell us if there is a way to have a triple layout (maybe by using English, German and Spanish at the same time) and having mapped the Spanish to the 7-bit Greek and the German to the original, Unicode Greek one...

Can it be done?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] mastmnmn:
hi

thanx for ur great work.

is tis possible to change arrengment of persian character like this one in the attachment?

the arrengment in ur pro isnt operational and take more time to type text

tanx
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Version 2.x is designed to apply a single custom keyboard only.

Version 3.x allows to install multiple custom keyboards, but only a single layout for every language. I can move 7-bit Greek layout to a separate language. But it will work on Samsung phones only (v3.x does not support other devices yet).
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] colossus_r:
Are there any plans for version 3.X to support and HTC devices ????

What is the problem and we cant have it in HTC devices ..maybe we can help on this
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Changes in v3.2.1 / v2.15.1:

Greek: updated 7-bit layout.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
I'll support HTC in v3.x as soon as someone find a way to modify registry with a higher priveleges than it's available now.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] mrhaugland:
Thanks for the great work!

Regarding the norwegian keyboard in v.2.1.5.1. Is it possible to make it so that the keyboard-layout containing æ,ø,å is the "main" keyboard? Right now I have to use the "right-arrow" to change the layout, and everytime i press "space" the keyboard reverts to what you might call "page 1" of the layouts.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] kane159:
any chance for chinese Traditional?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ahmedfikry:
Hello & Thanks for your work

I used v 3.2 & 3.2.1 & i choose "Arabic" language

I noticed when I am in english, I now have an icon "En" on topbar but when I switch to Arabic I get a empty icon box with "x" in it

Can you please fix the arabic obne to say "Ar" in topbar, & maybe it can say "Ar" on keyboard to as it say "Es" now

Thanks again
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
You may access these characters by keeping your finger on 'a' and 'o' keys.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
No, it isn't possible at the moment.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] kralikba:
Hi,

Thanks for this great app! I am using it on an HTC 7 Pro (german).

The ő and ű letters work well if I use the software keyboard, but when I use the äé key on the hardware keyboard they don't. The usual accent selection window comes up showing the correct letters, but when "ű" is selected, an "û". The accent is also mixed up for "ő"; the actual letter written is "ô".

Where can I start the investigation?

Greetings

EDIT:

Seems the "äé" key uses the builtin character list for every key... Time to get a Windows CE Platform SDK?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] almararn:
Fantastic program!!

This program saved my phone. I bought the unbranded HTC HD7 of ebay and was so surpriced that it did'nt have my langauge's special characters. After looking for a solution I found the xda-developers site. :o

I partly figured out how these patches work and added my langauge.

The only characters missing were Þ and Ð wich I added to T and D (like Iphone and the windows phone emulator do it) , but they are wery inportant to my langauge. Also removed characters that I didn't need.

I allready have it installed on my phone, but it would be great if you would implement my langauge Icelandic (Íslenska) into your program, so I can install updates as they come. I'll attach my files with Icelandic added to the menu and xap package.

I have few questions if you have time?

Why does the windows phone only have 80 characters per sms if I use some of the special characters? And not all of them make the sms shorter. For instance I can use "ì ù è é" in 160ch but adding one of "í ú ð þ á " will shorten it to 80. Never been a problem on my previos (nokia)phones. Can the layout be changed to these 7 bit ones?

Is it possible to replace a button on the main keyboard, like replaceing W for Þ?

W Z X are almost never used in Icelandic and would be better behind other characters.

I see that it's possible to manually add Icelandic words to the dictionary, but is it possible to flush out the english ones, by emptying it?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] thedeepain:
vietnamese plz :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Rosetti:
At first thank you for your great work!

What happend with Version v2.3? I want to use the Croatian Keyboard on my HD2 WP7 ROM.

So I cant use the latest v3.x right?

Or is the v2.15 the right one for me?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] b16b:
can you create a version with Both 2 Greeks Keyboard..?? i want to have unicode when search to my contact list or write on web and change it to 2nd "7bit" when write a sms

again thanks for your great work
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
v2.15.1 is the latest one for your phone.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14560813&postcount=361
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] b16b:
i'm on samsung that will be great for me... Just create a version 3.2.1.1 for greek people if you have free time.. Thanks a lot..
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Lidanh:
Hi,

I downloaded the latest version (3.2.1) and I want to install the hebrew keyboard.

So I clicked "Other keyboards - will be installed as Spanish (Honduras)"

And I'm having the following message: "Could not find a suitable patch for this phone. Sorry :("

I have already installed Native Keyboard before upgrading my phone to the latest version (Current I have 7.0.7392 with HD7).

The phone from T-Mobile and I don't have Spanish keyboard integrated in the OS. I got only English.

Any ideas?

Thank you!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] b16b:
just read the first post.. The 3.xx version is only for samsung you need 2.xx version for hd7
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Changes in v3.3:

New keyboards: Icelandic.

Greek: 7-bit layout can be installed side-by-side to the regular Greek layout.

Changes in v2.16:

New keyboards: Icelandic.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
I have Samsung, so cannot help you with HTC :) Try to find this information in HTC section of this forum.

Anyway, I'm going to implement a possibility to add a keyboard to english-only devices very soon. It will extend English keyboard, not replace it.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] K4dium:
Heya, here's a Swedish layout :)

(Just modified the Danish layout)

Appreciating your work! :D
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
It seems there is some misunderstanding. You used zyborg's source code to create the Swedish layout. It's not related to this topic. So please address your appreciations to zyborg :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] K4dium:
Oh, that's correct!

So, my appreciation will be split up between you two guys! :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] hpinto:
thank you friend
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] znomxv:
I'm able to pray all day to use Korean !!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Tomcat27:
It´s really great to get a danish keyboard.

Now it is only my n00bness which is in the way. I have absolutely no idea how to install..

In earlier win mobile it was a cab file to run on the phone. How to install in WP7 ?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] wixxer:
I'd like to see a turkish keyboard... Pleaaaaaaaase!
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] poceh:
Hi denominator77's, thanks for your wonderful work.

Bulgarian and Russian are pretty much the same in terms of Cyrillic characters, only with the difference of 2-3 chars. Is it OK to just modify the XML inside the application so that I can re-arrange the characters in Bulgarian phonetic language? Something else needs to be changed as well?

Or if you prefer I can send to you the keys alignment to prepare another language in the XAP and not to alter the existing ones.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] shawchyn:
I am One of the 1.5 Billion who waiting for Chinese Keyboard. :D

Hope to see it soooon....
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] sensboston:
I think "soon" is not a correct word. Chinese keyboard is too complicated and too different from usual "qwerty" SIP's. You will see it only if Microsoft decide to implement some kind of Chinese input methods in WP7.

P.S. BTW, you may ask developers for virtual keyboard app, to send email, sms, do search and other predefined tasks in WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] uristic:
How about a Slovenian - Serbian - Croatian keyboard (I think it's the same one). The only thing missing is when pres & hold "c" to get "č" and "ć", "z" to get "ž" and "s" to get "š", at least on the iPhone it was like that (the press & hold thing :P). The other difference is that letter z and y are changes so the keybord is QWERTZ. We use those characters alot so it would be great if we could acctually have them on the keybord.

Thank you =)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Hi All,

I will try to implement as many national keyboards as I can (and the method allows to) :)
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Changes in v2.1.0:

New keyboards: Swedish, Polish, Romanian, Czech, Hungarian.

Russian keyboard can be installed into english-only smartphone (HTC only).

Russian character Ё (hold you finger on Е; at the moment for HTC only)

National domains (.ru, .ua, etc. ; at the moment for HTC only).
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] appleseeker:
Ask Questions About Native Keybord

Hi:

I have used your native keybord. It's so cool. I am a chinese developer.

So I want to developer a chinese keybord.

Would you like to share your source code to me?

Thank you very much indeed.

My Hotmail: appleseeker@hotmail.com
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ailon:
Tried. Works like a charm. Thanks! Donated.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] NIGHTCD:
any chance for Norwegian edition*?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
No problem. I will add a Norwegian keyboard.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] cheburger:
If every of those 1.5 billion would have given him a buck, it'd be a crazy amount of money :)

Thank you for russian keyboard! Works like a charm.

I have donated the author, please support his efforts too.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Changes in v2.1.0_fixed:

Use this version if you have a problem reverting the patch in 2.1.0.

Changes in v2.2.0:

New keyboards: Norwegian, Bulgarian.

Updated Hungarian keyboard (QWERTZ, shifting layout).
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] KingpinEX:
If I had this on nodo will it transfer to mango after update?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] ballajalla:
Phone crashes...

Today as I have been out flying, I had to swith off my phone, now when I switched it on again the keybord doesn´t work, and the phone hangs and reebots everytime i try to type anything.

I have tried to revert the keyboards, and it seems that the problem is with the Danish keyboard, as I get an error report that I can send, but there is no email address to send it to. I posted it here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/573763/error_report.txt

I would like to fix it without resetting my device and wipe it completely...

Please advice.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Mango has some significant changes in the keyboard infrastructure. So I recommend reverting all changes made by this program before updating to Mango.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Please read the following post: #321.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] KingpinEX:
Well Mango update dose not kill the changes this is awesome. yet I did the hack on the Spanish keyboard, not in the fancy new way.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Lexaua:
Russian/Ukrainian keyboard

Hi, I'm new to this forum, so if I posted something in a wrong place sorry.

I have a Windows phone Samsung Omnia 7 developer unlocked and having no luck installing Russian keyboard. looks like it says I have installed program ok, but when I try to change keyboard there is nothing there!!!!

Help please, any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Beberik:
Hi, is it possible to create Czech layout without the need to use the arrow to shift the keyboard sideways? It would be best to have all the accent characters under normal (english) letters. Czech does not have any characters, that would not fit somewhere. Having to switch the keyboard all the time is very confusing.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] idoprz:
wp7 mango block deployment of keyboard

Hi,

I updated to mango, and now I can't deploy the keyboard.

I think it's related to this article:

pocketnow.com/windows-phone/windows-phone-7-mango-will-not-support-some-homebrew-applications

Is there any workaround?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
Did you run the program and then choosed Russian keyboard to install?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
This layout is already available in Native Keyboard v3. It works on Samsung only. Unfortunatelly, I can provide very limited support for this program, because I cannot test it since upgraded to Mango Beta.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
You are right. The application uses tricks that are prohibited in Mango.

There is no workaround yet.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] idoprz:
Is there a plan for creating one?

Is it going to be any time soon?

I can leave without the keyboard for a couple of weeks, is it going to be in this time frame, or you would recomned going back to NoDo?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
There is a thread in this forum where people are trying to find a workaround. I have no idea how much time it will take.

You can try to revert to NoDo, use NativeKeyboard v2 to install the keyboard, and then update to Mango. You won't be able to run the program in Mango, but the applied keyboard may work fine.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] lathera:
the problem is for the hd 2 users....we cant use the update prosess... not like reular wp7 devices any way
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] idoprz:
Is there any news regarding the keybpard on Mango?

Is there any update on the mango problem? I'm only send SMS in english now.

:(
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] zhelev81:
None of the attached files works for my WP7 in bulgarian version 2x says :

Checking the current state...

Error: Cannot find file "Keyboards/Bulgarian\registry patch.xml in the application xap pack

and the version 3x cant run at all :(((

What is the reason ?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
No update yet.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
It seems the xap file is altered or corrupted. Redownload it and try again.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] The HearT BreaK KiD:
Hello

The keyboard does not work with me

Reason for the lack of a secondary keyboard ..

There are only a keyboard English

What is the solution?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Forouz:
there is no persian ( farsi ) patch on v3xs

i had to install v2.15 on my phone
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] Slamberg:
If I have dev device unlocked, can I install this on Mango B2 or not?
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] denominator77:
No, it does not work on Mango.
[Windows Phone 7 Apps and Games] lathera:
he will need to get it installed on an earlyer version