Bug: Problem inserting record due to missing Eastern Arabic numbers support

[emavgl]

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So my device language is Farsi but I can't change the language of the displayed keyboard and apparently the app thinks I should enter Farsi numbers and shows me invalid input error as captured below.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?

At the moment, I am calling the keyboard with inputType=phone. This is because I would like the default keyboard to have symbols like +, -, * to perform simple mathematical operations.

However, here it seems that the keyboard comes with Arabic numbers, and does not give the possibility to provide the Eastern Arabic numbers instead.

I see two possibilities here:

• Force the app to switch to a EN_US locale, for those problematic locales with eastern arabic numbers.
• Maybe switching the keyboard_type to numbers may include also those Eastern Arabic numbers as well.

@nizarus, do you maybe know something more about this number format?

[nizarus]

Hi @emavgl,
Can't reproduce this issue with Arabic locales, even with countries using eastern Arabic numbers.
I'm not an android developer so I don't know if there is a more suitable inputType in this case.
But if I take the case of the equivalent application that I was using MoneyWallet, this application is using a calculator as input interface (screen shot attached)

[emavgl]

Addressed in https://github.com/emavgl/oinkoin/releases/tag/1.0.39

I have added a check, if the Locale does not uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals then it will default to en_US locale.

I could not find a better solution at the moment, closing until a better solution is found.