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Punctuation characters in 4-row Persian should be changed to Persian punctuation characters #227

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
In 4-row layout, there is a dedicated button for punctuation characters. But 
these set of characters are not so useful when the layout is set to Persian.

Because of the Right-to-Left nature of Persian alphabet (same is true about 
Arabic, Kurdish etc.), some of the punctuation characters are not the same as 
their Persian counterparts, and therefore, there are not so useful when typing 
in Persian. For example we have ؟ instead of ? or we have ، instead of , and 
so on. 

Is it desirable to have a different set of punctuation characters than Latin 
when e.g. Persian layout is active.

One can override the punctuation list manually in the keyboard's settings, but 
this is global, so doing it per language seems more appropriate.

I have created a patch to solve this problem by modifying 
/java/res/values/donottranslate.xml and you can find it in issue 225.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by amp...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2012 at 12:28