To what degree Will Librem 5 enable me the choice of switching to non-latin input language by default ?

AFAIK, code it yourself! You should be able to combined the onscreen keyboard with ibus to input non Latin characters, but that’s very hacky.

The Librem 5 will provide you near infinite choice by default in that you can do anything you choose with the device. There are no known intentional software limitations and all indications are there will be no restrictions placed on your ability to modify the software. What I believe you are actua…

Asian: [image] The Status of International Input Method in Librem 5 Librem 5 Hi. The CJK input method is unlikely to arrive at launch. Apart from that, there’s enough work with Latin-based input that there’s no definite plan for CJK. The community is welcome to…

There’s currently an ability to support arbitrary Unicode input in squeekboard [image] Librem5 / squeekboard The final Librem5 keyboard Documenting in progress, for now take a look at the nb.yaml file if you’d like to contribute. Russian support should be straig…

If it is still workable, there is also https://help.accusoft.com/PrizmDoc/v12.1/HTML/Installing_Asian_Fonts_on_Ubuntu_and_Debian.html .

@dcz I’ve started an attempt at creating a Russian keyboard layout based on nb.yaml like you suggested. I think the huge refactoring work you did to allow unicode symbols really does make it a lot easier and more intuitive to add new layouts compared to what the old XML format files looked like! …

I checked https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/tree/master/data/keyboards and there is only nb numbers and us. I am interested in Greek (el) support. should I go ahead and create an el.yaml or this job is undertaken by someone already? And how to commit it? By the way, what is the default fon…

Yay, first contribution incoming! Buttons need to be added in the list only if something is overridden from the default for the button. The default is: outline “default” action “submit label” label as provided no icon keysym for libxkbcommon automatically derived In general, the button needs to …

[image] antonis: hould I go ahead and create an el.yaml or this job is undertaken by someone already? I’m not aware of anyone else trying to do that. [image] antonis: And how to commit it? You can either submit a merge request, or file an issue and include the file, or send me the fil…

I will try to create an el file for Greek and get back to you. But it is unfortunate (for me) that Cantarell does not have Greek support. It has also received a lot of criticism. I hope it would be easy to change the font. Of course there are tons of fonts available. I consider the Go fonts created…

Using non-latin language on Librem 5

Hardware Librem 5

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