Is there any solution in adding/changing letters of the keyboard with local characters ?

I'd be interested in this, too.

Disabling the auto-correction helps writing in a non-English language to some extent, but I would like to change couple of the special, rarely (or never) used characters to scandinavian letters.

I've been trying to look into this: the keyboard graphics can be changed to display whatever you want, but getting them to output what you want seems to be challenging. Haven't found the files or code that control what character is output when you press a key.

I wonder if anyone in the dev team has any insight into this? I do understand that this is a low priority issue for the hackers trying to unlock our phones.

I wanna now more about this too, would really like to add Å Ä Ö då the keyboard. And of course unlock the phone

The keyboard control is done in the UIKit (System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit). If you open the main file (UIKit) with a hex editor, you can find a partial mapping of keys at address 134b20h and 134bb0h. The following keys are specified there:

W E R T U O P D F G H J K L shift Z X C V B N M delete

1 [ 2 ] 3 { 4 } 5 6 % 7 ^ 8 * 9 0 _ \ ~ ( ) $ "

You can override one of these keys. I, for example, changed W to X and it worked for me. Whenever I push a W on the keyboard, an X is written. What is strange is that not all keys are mapped here. There are only the large letter ones, and not all of them are defined. The Q, Y, I, A and S are missing. Also, in the second row, the 5 shift key (#) is missing. So, it is a bit strange but at least a starting point.

Wow.
I am so going to try that modyfing. I've been trying to figure out how to do that.
Please let me know if you find out more.

In the meantime I've found a softer hack for us foreigners.
I'm danish and in order to get words containing æ ø and å into the phone, I've actually left auto correction ON but added certain words to a fake contact in my addressbook.

If you ad a list of words they automatically appear in the user dictionary.
Of course with some short words it will alway suggest another english, so you have to be a little creative.

for instanse, if i want to write så (danish for then), and I hit sa, it corrects it to as, but I've added the word såa to my contact and type saa, hit space and delete the last letter.

I know it's combersome, but its a softer hack for anyone not wanting to "enter" the innards of their iPhone.

Thanks zhivago for the update. Please inform us if you find anything else. I guess that the buttons are images and have to changed from somewhere else ?

Can you please clear this up a little? Exactly how did you do this? I have also tried to do this... How did you do it?

Is it possible to make ae autocorrect to æ, oe to ø and aa to å?

Where is the userbased dictionary stored? Can a list of suggestions be put there?

Thanks for the details, zhivago.

One problem though: when I locate for example the character { and try to replace it with the scandinavian ä, the correct character does not show up in the Hex editor. Instead, a period, . , appears in the readable column.

If I type ä to the UIKit instead of { , will this however show up correctly as ä and not . when I save the modified file, or does replacing { with ä require some special HEX editing?

Just wanna be sure of what I am doing, so that I won't mess up the whole UIKit

K.

And the problem is that the keyboard is a image (.artwork).

which application can open .artwork?