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German bluetooth keyboard typing EN?

SnakePliscen
Honored Guest
Dear Meta Support Team!
 
I am currently trying to set up Quest 3 as a "Spatial Workspace", which is working quite well. A mouse and a Bluetooth keyboard (German! QWERTZ) are connected. 
 
The keyboard is recognised for typing, but the letters in EN end up in all applications. The Quest 3 itself, as well as in Imersed, VirtualDesktop or vSpatial (my favourite). 
 
I tried to change the language of the Bluetooth Keyboard in the Quest 3, but only EN languages are offered.
 
There are a lot of entries on this topic in these forums. As a non-specialist, I would have guessed that based on Android, it should be a simple addition in the appropriate menu. Is this really so complex? 
 
If the Meta-Verse or Mixed Reality is to have a high priority, even as an alternative to the upcoming Apple Vision Prio, then support for keyboard languages for other countries would be logical, wouldn't it? 
 
Or does anyone already have an idea about this?
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Same problem here. Have you (or anyone) found a solution?

Splendid news!

Apologies, just making light of what I can imagine is a frustrating situation 😁

Big PC, all the headsets, now using Quest 3

Meta are a bit limited on international support with stuff like this.

It's weird because I'm sure I remember their Portal device had international language and keyboard options, and that's maybe a smaller seller although not sure that included Bluetooth keyboards.

There must be a lot of users struggling with those layouts and diacritics. I don't know of a work-around.

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AliceinVRworld
Retired Support

Hey there! Just like how @DaftnDirect mentioned. At this time there is just not an expansion on languages however, you can provide this to our Idea forums as I think this is an awesome idea to have added! Def need more languages around here! 

We are all mad here.

That is a bug and not a missing feature. EVERY(!) keyboard implementation must have international keyboard layouts. Most of your customers do not even speak english and do not use english keyboard layout.

This is such a rookie mistake which I cannot even understand how it could even survive QA

Morgenmicha
Honored Guest

For an international company like Meta and such a high-quality product as the Quest 3, it's really embarrassing. I was totally disappointed when I tried to use my Macbook virtually with several monitors with Meta Workrooms and immersed. An English QWERTY keyboard is displayed, although a QWERTZ keyboard with German umlauts is on the table in front of me. So I paired a Bluetooth keyboard. And that's where my understanding really ended: the GERMAN keyboard generates ENGLISH input! It's 2024! We use MR and VR in a pair of glasses, and the simplest thing like a keyboard doesn't work? No Meta, that's embarrassing! Not anymore.

ZenekiVR
Protege

still no solution for such a trivial thing...

Firestomp
Honored Guest

Hello,

Same problem here. Please implement other keyboard layouts!

seventy.mx
Honored Guest

Hi there!

You can solve this issue by installing **Null Keyboard** and setting it as your default keyboard to stop the on-screen keyboard from appearing. Note that only sideloaded standard Android apps will respect the default keyboard setting, so Meta apps will still show the on-screen keyboard.

After setting Null Keyboard, you can install the app from **[this GitHub repo](https://github.com/calin-darie/extra-keyboard-layouts)**, which adds support for more physical keyboard layouts. Select **German IBM** for your Bluetooth keyboard layout to achieve proper QWERTZ functionality.

If you specifically need the **Swiss German** keyboard layout, you can use the release available [here](https://github.com/Steffen70/extra_keyboard_layouts/releases/tag/v1.0.0).

To open the Android settings, you can use the following ADB command:

```sh
adb shell am start -a android.settings.SETTINGS
```