title: Non-english based keyboard & input method
body: <p>I'm new to android app development so I'm sorry if my questions sound amateur. I've tried to search for an answer to my question online but I think I might not be using the correct lingo because what I am trying to do isn't something new. Please help me get on the right path.</p>
  
  <p>I want to create an app in which one of my pages has available a keyboard in a different language. The language cannot be represented by english letters but there are fonts available for it in windows, etc so it is a known language. I would like the user to select the letters from the keyboard and the letters to be printed into a text box in that same language. Next, using the letters that the user inputted, I would like to do a search through a database for that particular string of letters and find the page number that the inputted line is located on.</p>
  
  <p>Part 1:
  I'm trying to figure out which approach I should use in constructing the keyboard. What I have come up with is that I need to create a table of image buttons that has an image of each character on it. Is this a good approach or is there a better way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>Part 2: 
  When the user selects the a letter from the table of image buttons, how to print it in the particular language? I did create a strings.xml under res/values-pa (I looked this up and the ISO 639-1 Code is "pa") for this language. What I don't know how to do is get the characters in that language to be printed when the user selects it from the keyboard?</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.</p>