In the last few weeks, someone messed up the Arabic keyboard's Alef-Hamza default consonant

Steps to reproduce

1. In the keyboard, hold the Alef letter in Arabic. Instead of getting the previous default, equivalent to consonant a, we get e (default was Hamza above Alef, now below)… how was that change done?

Using the keyboard has become very annoying. A few of my friends have noted the same issue and this has slowed people down a lot, because the new default is rarely the case in Arabic.

Expected behaviour

Android OS version: 12

Device manufacturer and model: SM-N975F/DS and SM-950F, both at about the same time after an update

List of installed add-ons (like languages, or themes): English, Arabic and German QWERTY slim + Youchees Light theme + Plain light theme. I don’t think any of that matters though

[TheQuantumPhysicist]

Yes! Thank you very much!

[menny]

hey. did you get the new version of Arabic pack? Does the Alif make sense now?

On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 1:44 PM TheQuantumPhysicist < @.***> wrote:

Thank you for the fast response.

This is the change? 4e89908 https://github.com/AnySoftKeyboard/AnySoftKeyboard/commit/4e899080d30b3469c845c0f07e1946dba449f2b1

The timeframe seems consistent. It’s probably the change that caused the issue. I also see the new order in my keyboard.

You are saying “أ” should be the first in the list? Can you explain why? (I want to have the reason documented, I’m not an Arabic speaker)

First or last doesn’t really matter. But what matters is that when I hold Alef, I’d get “أ” instead of “إ” by default (hence if I hold for a long time then release), because “أ” is the most used variation in the language, and others are kind of the exception.

From the looks of it, it seems that if you exchange ٱاٰآأإء with ٱاٰآإأء and do nothing else, it would solve the problem, because it seems that the second letter in this array is the default one.

If there’s another way to change the default one selected when holding Alef and set it to “أ” (regardless of the order), then that’s probably a better solution.

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