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OS: Chrome
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Type: Feature



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CrOS FR: Keyboard layout for Swedish/Sami language

Project Member Reported by melaniejane@google.com, Nov 19

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Summary: Swedish schools needs the Sámi language keyboard layout to be implemented in ChromeOS. An adaptation of the Unicode "Windows Extended Swedish with Sami" layout would be an optimal solution [1]. The most used of all the Sámi varieties in Sweden is the "North Sámi"[2]. 

Use case / Motivation: Sami is a minority language and protected by Swedish law, this means that they need to find a solution to educate the students using this language in the same way. 

Existing workarounds: They've used for some time the Czech keyboard as some letters are similar, but it is not quite the same, as some letters are missing. 

Case#: 17521316

[1] v-t-k0-windows-extended [Swedish with Sami]: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/28/keyboards/layouts/sv.html#sv-t-k0-windows-extended
[2] Examples of the North Sami layouts can be found here: http://divvun.no/keyboards/desktopindex.html
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Additional information:
- An "old" feature request on Chromium related to this implementation ( crbug.com/127135 ) and referring to the "Northern Sámi and Lule Sámi keyboards for Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian":  crbug.com/127135#c120  

- The layout named Sámi Extended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#S%C3%A1mi_Extended 

- Extra keyboard layouts and input methods for Chrome OS: https://github.com/google/extra-keyboards-for-chrome-os 



 
Cc: vkasatkin@google.com
Components: UI>Localization
Labels: Hotlist-Enterprise
Cc: marcore@chromium.org

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