On 24 June 2013 06:43, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a > keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it > to your build if it is reasonably recent. > > In OLPC's & Dextrose's versions of sugar the sugar-cp-keyboard rpm doesn't get installed. Think there is a conflict over the keyboard with olpc-configure supplied by olpc-utils. Jerry > Meanwhile, we may have to make a new X keyboard symbols file for you > that does the right thing. Not impossible to get upstreamed. > > regards. > > -walter > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Tom Parker <t...@carrott.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking at how you enter a macron for Māori language users. > > > > It seems that the olpc us international keyboard binds a ̄ COMBINING > MACRON > > (unicode U+0304) to algr + hyphan. When typed after the letter a you get > ā > > which is similar to but not the same as ā LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH > MACRON > > (unicode U+0101). > > > > Issues I've noted with a small amount of testing: > > > > On older builds, Write does not correctly load files containing the > > combining macron. > > The combining macron is not rendered at the correct height for lower case > > letters. (on older builds this seems to be the case all the time, on > newer > > builds, it is rendered correctly after loading a file until you delete a > > following character the on the same line, then it jumps up) > > You can have more than one combining macron, they stack. > > You have to delete twice, once to delete the macron and again to delete > the > > character. > > > > Have these issues come up before? I don't see any. I will raise tickets > for > > the bugs rendering the macron in the latest version of write shortly. I'm > > not sure if anyone wants a ticket for older builds? Obviously stacking > > macrons is by-design when using the combining macron character (see > > https://twitter.com/glitchr_/ for more improbable outcomes of combining > > characters, perhaps your browser will crash). > > > > I haven't yet experimented with entering the ā U+0101 characters into > sugar > > (tomorrow!) > > > > Apparently on Windows, the Māori keyboard is set up such that when you > hit > > the grave (apparently this is what I have always called the backtick) key > > and then one of the vowels, you get the macron version of the vowel. I > > haven't seen this in action but Māori typists claim it is very efficient. > > > > Gnome on Ubuntu on my laptop binds right-alt-a to ā U+0101 when using the > > Māori keyboard layout. I'm not sure how Maori typists feel about this > > inconsistency with windows. > > > > When you choose the language in sugar, can this change the keyboard > layout > > too? If not, what is the recommended way to configure this? > > > > How complex is it to change the localization of the keyboard for the > Maori > > language? The xkb files don't look too complicated. Is the grave - vowel > = > > macron vowel possible while still preserving the backtick for shell > > scripting? I haven't seen the laptops in question but I'm told they have > the > > Australian simplified key caps, so changing the existing alt-gr mappings > to > > render macron vowels (ie to mimic the Maori keyboard option on > Gnome-Ubuntu) > > instead of the existing mappings won't confuse the key caps. > > > > Obviously touching all the laptops to change how the keyboard works is a > > pain and the change is potentially erased by future updates. > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > OLPC-NZ mailing list > olpc...@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-nz >
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