Most of the time, I'm writing in German on my N900; but from time to time, I write English — e.g., right now — and Bulgarian, which is written in cyrillic letters. While it's not a big deal writing in English on a German QWERTZ keyboard, I needed some possibility to quickly switch between QWERTZ and ЙЦУКЕ (for some funny reason, I've always written Bulgarian texts with a Russian key layout — which comes in handy now that the N900 doesn't offer Bulgarian; although I'm sure it can't be a big deal to install the Bulgarian layout, I saw software packages for that). At the same time, I want the automatic word completion to work for German and English, but not Russian, since I never type anything Russian.
And here's how I do that:
- Open the settings, tap on the Keyboard settings (Texteingabe).
- Hardware layout: German
- Use virtual keyboard: yes
- 1st language: German, dictionary: German
- 2nd language: Russian, dictionary English (!)
- Use dictionaries in parallel: yes
I normally use the hardware keyboard. When I need to type something in Bulgarian, I simply close the lid, tap into the text area on screen so that the virtual keyboard pops up, and then have a Russian virtual keyboard. If not, I have to change it by tapping on the “≡” button that is located left to the Return button on the virtual keyboard (3rd from right in the button row right underneath the text display). Admittedly, this way I only get the cyrillic characters via the software keyboard, but then, I still do a lot of mistakes when typing on the Russian keyboard without seeing the layout.
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