Missing Latvian keyboard support

[Rūdolfs Mazurs]

In settings “Language and text” in keyboard layouts there is no Latvian language option.

[Rūdolfs Mazurs (rudolfs-mazurs)]

More info:
Base layout is the same as QWERTY. Special symbols for EN (i.e. ñ) can be omitted.
Specific characters for Latvian alphabet:
- Ā, ā (under A)
- Č, č (under C)
- Ē, ē (under E)
- Ģ, ģ (under G)
- Ī, ī (under I)
- Ķ, ķ (under K)
- Ļ, ļ (under L)
- Ņ, ņ (under N)
- Ō, ō (under O)
- Ŗ, ŗ (under R)
- Š, š (under S)
- Ū, ū (under U)
- Ž, ž (under Z)

URL ending button should remain .com, but additional options should contain .lv.

If more info is needed, let me know.

[Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon)]

Hi Rūdolfs, that's a great start, ideally we'd also need a large sample of public domain or CC-0 licensed text which we can use to build a prediction database, Project Gutenberg it typically a good source for this sort of data. If you were able to find a freely licensed book or similar which represented modern Latvian usage as much as possible that'd be a big help.

Thanks,
 Mike.

[Rūdolfs Mazurs (rudolfs-mazurs)]

Hi Mike, I am afraid freely available texts might be hard to come by. The only database I could find was for educational and research purposes only.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Hi,

I noticed <http://askubuntu.com/q/776541>, filed by a Latvian Ubuntu Phone buyer, and then I noticed this bug report and the request for keyboard layout data. Maybe I'm missing something, but can't

/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/lv

which is present on every Ubuntu desktop be used?

[Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon)]

Hi Gunnar,

 It's not really further layout information that we need at this stage, but rather suitably licensed text representative of that language's use from which we can build a prediction model

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for trying to explain, Michael. Unfortunately this is somewhat over my head... (Don't understand what there is to predict.)

Would it be possible to add a plain Latvian keyboard layout to Ubuntu Touch in the meantime? Considering that it's shipped with a Latvian display language option, you would expect a Latvian keyboard layout to be present as well.

[Andris (karlo1941)]

hi

there is free sample.
https://www.bible.com/lv/bible/488/jhn.1
https://www.bible.com/lv/bible/488/jhn.2
https://www.bible.com/lv/bible/488/jhn.3
....

[Andris Petrams (andris-petrams)]

I did create files "Keyboard_lv.qml", "Keyboard_lv_email.qml", "Keyboard_lv_url.qml", "Keyboard_lv_url_search.qml" and "qml.pro" for Latvian keyboard layout but how I can upload it?

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Andris (karlo1941)]

and what now? ho we could use it?

[Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon)]

Hi Andris,

 Thanks for submitting those, I'll try to put together a branch and build it in a silo this week to make it easy for you to test out.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-keyboard - 0.99.trunk.phablet2+16.10.20160615.1-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-keyboard (0.99.trunk.phablet2+16.10.20160615.1-0ubuntu1) yakkety; urgency=medium

  [ Michael Sheldon ]
  * Add support for Latvian keyboard layout (LP: #1539121)
  * Don't send preedit events when preedit is disabled (LP: #1448145)
  * Support all types of space character when checking for autocaps and
    double space full-stop insertion
  * Add icon to keyboard autopilot test application to avoid bug
    #1591192
  * Ensure wide characters (e.g. Chinese) fit on 'Next' key (LP:
    #1588635)
  * Fix emoji autopilot tests

  [ Timo Jyrinki ]
  * Stop depending on transitional packages. (LP: #1583079)

 -- Michael Sheldon <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Jun 2016 12:45:56 +0000

[Andris (karlo1941)]

after OTA-12 update, latvian keyboard layout is still not visible.

[Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon)]

Sounds like this didn't get added to the image seed after it landed in the silo, I'll follow up on that this week

[Michael Sheldon (michael-sheldon)]

I mean after it landed in the archive, not silo

[Andris (karlo1941)]

ok. Then i will waiting OTA-13.