Add Eastern Mari layout

[ViZiD]

Add Eastern Mari lang layout
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow_Mari_language

[tenextractor]

Hiding the commonly used characters Ҥ Ӧ Ӱ behind popup keys is not a good idea.

I suggest using a similar layout as Chuvash like this:

Ё Ҥ Ӧ Ӱ Ъ - ! ? " /
Й Ц У К Е Н Г Ш Щ З Х
Ф Ы В А П Р О Л Д Ж Э
⬆ Я Ч С М И Т Ь Б Ю ⬅

[ViZiD]

@tenextractor I did this because i'm used to the Microsoft Swift Keyboard layout, it did exactly that there. Is there any way to keep both layouts?

[ViZiD]

@tenextractor ok, i make change and this layout look better.

[tenextractor]

@ViZiD you can add them as popup keys under this layout too, so for example you have Ҥ in the top row but also as a pop up key under Н if you're used to typing it that way

[ViZiD]

@tenextractor It's not such a big problem, thank you. I made the changes you suggested in the first comment, can you review?

[tenextractor]

Looks good, just one small thing, because the top row has the numbers 0-9 as popup keys, it's better to have 10 keys in the top row so it's better to add / or some other commonly used special character to make the top row have 10 keys. Thanks for updating the layout.

[Helium314]

Is the language name displayed correctly, or does it just show mhr in either the main settings screen or the language selection screen?

[Helium314]

And a small request: could you change the layout name to something like mari.txt? I think there is no other layout that uses both language name and language code in the file name.

[ViZiD]

@Helium314 Done

[ViZiD]

Is the language name displayed correctly, or does it just show mhr in either the main settings screen or the language selection screen?

Yes, in the debug app it is displayed correctly, but unlike the Chuvash language it is somehow named "Марийский" in russian, for example the Chuvash layout is displayed in Chuvash "чӑваш"

[Helium314]

Might not be great, but I think it's still acceptable. Maybe the name will be improved in newer Android versions.