Bluetooth keyboard android

[Washell]

I'm looking for the above for a customer of us who regularly switches between Dutch, German and French. She used to have an old setup that worked just like windows to get all the special characters like éèëêç, etc. We've been racking our brains trying to find a software solution, with only a (paid) app in sight. The default swipe options on screen aren't a solution, she's a classically trained typist doing short stories and novels and this would completely ruin her pace.

Anyone knows, preferably by personal experience, which brand/model bluetooth keyboard, preferably tablet sized, has this feature built in? Trying to find one through google has thus far proven to be a herculean task.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Switching languages on Android
http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-4/249758-quick-switch-keyboard-language.html

No there is no way you will have that feature built into the Keyboard itself.
You have to navigate through the OS/Settings to do that.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0148NPH9I

[Washell]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย BMGaming:

No there is no way you will have that feature built into the Keyboard itself.

It's a simple matter of having a chip in the keyboard send the correct character code to the device and there's no hardware or software barrier prohibiting this feature. Thank you for your time, sorry you couldn't be of more help.

[rotNdude]

I think the only thing the keyboard sends is what key(s) have been pressed. It's mapped into an X-Y grid and other keys can affect how it's treated. The OS captures that information and uses it to decode it into the relevant information based on the language/keyboard setting of the OS.

[Washell]

When the processor finds a circuit that is closed, it compares the location of that circuit on the key matrix to the character map in its read-only memory (ROM). A character map is basically a comparison chart or lookup table. It tells the processor the position of each key in the matrix and what each keystroke or combination of keystrokes represents. For example, the character map lets the processor know that pressing the a key by itself corresponds to a small letter "a," but the Shift and a keys pressed together correspond to a capital "A."

A computer can also use separate character maps, overriding the one found in the keyboard. This can be useful if a person is typing in a language that uses letters that don't have English equivalents on a keyboard with English letters. People can also set their computers to interpret their keystrokes as though they were typing on a Dvorak keyboard even though their actual keys are arranged in a QWERTY layout. In addition, operating systems and applications have keyboard accessibility settings that let people change their keyboard's behavior to adapt to disabilities.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/keyboard2.htm

I've been unable to find a software override, other than the aforementioned paid app, which we will probably go for, but we were hoping for a more userfriendly (foolproof) hardware solution in the form of a smarter than average bluetooth keyboard. I do realize heavy typists on tablet bluetooth keyboards are pretty much an oxymoron, and such a thing may be too niche a market to exist. Though that leaves me wondering about her previous, supposedly working solution.