How to switch language in slide-out keyboard mode.

johenkel

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Recently I realized that my D4 supports more languages and I activated also German. Spelling works great.
When using touch-screen keyboard one slides the space button left or right to change the language. But how do I change the language using the physical keyboard?

So far I have to slide the keyboard back in, slide the space bar over on the virtual one and the get it back out. Annoying.

Any help?

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Can't help you with your question, but try Swiftkey, load the German language module and you won't need to switch languages anymore. You can type English mixed with German, get auto-complete in both languages, and the best is, Swiftkey learns your syntax and gets better the longer you use it. The only drawback: the Caps lock button on the physical keyboard doesn't work with Swiftkey which I actually like because I kept hitting it instead of Shift :)

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Thanks,
I am trying it out right now.
Wish the right predicted word would be used by using the space bar (like the original keyboard).
I definitely like the auto-language selection!

Always caps you can do while holding the shift key while typing.
Also, I was trying some double-clicks and long-presses with the shift and caps-lock and it actually worked. Then I deleted the letters and tried again and couldn't. Not sure what I had done. Oh well.

Thanks again!
Great solution!

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Thanks,
I am trying it out right now.
Wish the right predicted word would be used by using the space bar (like the original keyboard).

I believe that's an option in the settings. Maybe only for the software keyboard? Don't remember - hated it when it did that to me.
 
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