Ah, you’re right. I might be a little sleepy… I fixed my example.
Anyway, punctuation keys will get a special function later (end prediction), so there’s more potentially breaking changes in the future. I’ll try to make them as easy as possible.
Should we remove all this then?
period:
outline: "default"
label: "."
colon:
label: ":"
"\"":
keysym: "quotedbl"
Thanks.
Not quite, outlines are still useful (except maybe the default one). So in this case, yeah.
I just started with the changes on the German and Japanese layout. But there are some questions remaining for me:
How do you intend to handle “BackSpace” and “Return”. If I understand #153 correctly, you have to use the “keysym” property with those (because they are just buttons using xkb keycode names - and that’s deprecated in the future). So should it be something like the following?
BackSpace:
outline: "altline"
icon: "edit-clear-symbolic"
keysym: "0xff08"
Return:
outline: "altline"
icon: "key-enter"
keysym: "0xff0d"
Or should we use f.ex. keysym: "BackSpace"? Both seem to be OK ATM.
And what about space:
space:
outline: "spaceline"
label: " "
Shouldn’t we use the “keysym” property here as well?
No, I think I didn’t explain that well enough. Does my comment make it clearer? https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/issues/153#note_67857
Yes.
Yeah, and that reminds me I should roll out the “text” property soon…
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Anyone willing to update the Russian layout? https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/merge_requests/220
I still intend to update this and resubmit it. I had trouble with the emulator and haven’t been able to get back to this yet. I have some time now though so I will try to work on it this week.
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Related: Unicode version 13 is set to be released on March 10. “Unicode 13.0 adds 5,930 characters, for a total of 143,859 characters. These additions include 4 new scripts, for a total of 154 scripts, as well as 55 new emoji characters.” Didn’t know it was that much. It includes support for a lot of of (also new-old) languages, in addition to all the emojis.
Is/will it be fully supported on keyboards?
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The keyboard doesn’t care about Unicode versions. It will dutifully forward whatever layout creators put in layouts to the input system, and to the font renderer. I don’t expect any difficulties with Unicode extensions over the next 20 years as long as system fonts keep up.
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I like your confidence in stable IT 
Is there anyone who wants to write or take over the French layout? https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/merge_requests/235
I have tried Hebrew and cyrilic alphabets on Librem before December both works ok as far as I remember, a Debian support is good for many language I am sure same applies to PureOS.
Edit,: French layout was also ok.
Regards, Alex
By the way, there’s currently no way to enter Cyryllic or Hebrew on the Librem 5 keyboard. Please contribute if you write in languages using those!
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Just ignore the person that you think has been offensive with you, a forum is more than a single user, you can still helping the community.
I may be able to do the wide version for the Spanish layout, ill have a look to the repo this night because I’ve been away for a while and I don’t know the current status of the layouts.
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Hi, after a while I’m trying to upload the Spanish layout again including the new Terminal layouts, but I not sure about something, in /data/langs/es-ES.txt what we need to add? all the layout codes with their Spanish translations or just the keyboard name?
All the codes – but the translations from this file are only used for the cases when gnome-desktop doesn’t provide them, so I think it’s safe to skip.