On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 14:04, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
H Gary and alli,
I am using 852. Changed to Urdu in settings. Trying to use Write. Writing
across the top is in Urdu, but I am unable to enter Urdu text. It does not
appear in the list of fonts. All I get are the regular ABC letters. Urdu
wasn't listed in texts to choose from.
I am looking at an XO running build 852, Sugar 0.84.16. It has a
Language setting, but none for Keyboard. This means that you can
change keyboard only at the command line. For a Pakistani Urdu keymap,
the command in Terminal is
setxkbmap pk
I recommend that you enter
setxkbmap us
beforehand, so that you can recall it from the terminal history with
up-arrow in order to get out of Urdu.
Or create a script file
#!/bin/bash
setxkbmap us
with some easily-remembered Urdu name.
Tried Farsi instead since it is listed and shares some of the same
characters. Same result. All tabs and instructions are in Farsi, but only
able to type ABCs.
I will be seeing a niece who is a Farsi speaker this afternoon. She also
knows some Urdu. I thought she could help me with a little project I have,
if I can find out how to get the Activity to output Urdu.
Is there any listing of which Activities support which languages? Are there
instructions for accessing these languages anywhere on the OLPC wiki?
Caryl
CC: support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org
From: garycmar...@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:47:58 +
To: cbige...@hotmail.com
Hi Caryl,
On 26 Dec 2010, at 06:42, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi...
If one had a simple overlay with the Urdu keyboard symbols on it, what
would be the exact procedure for switching the keys to Urdu? I tried in My
Settings- Keyboard- Urdu - Urdu Pakistan, but the result was a lot of
little squares with symbols in them... maybe hex code?
Not my place of expertise, and I don't know if Urdu is specifically
supported or not, but sounds like your keyboard switch went just fine. What
you need to be aware of is:
1) The activity you try to type into needs to support an extended range of
possible characters, usually this is utf-8. You've probably heard of ASCII,
well that defines the small set of roman characters along with a few accents
and symbols western users are used to, utf-8 defines a much larger range of
characters allowing many more scripts). If utf-8 input is not supported by
an activity, when you type you'll likely often see several fairly arbitrary
characters being inserted for each single key press.
2) The OS build needs to have a font that actualy has characters defined
for the language script you are trying to use, if there are no available
fonts to cover a script, little square symbols are usually what are shown
instead. If your activity has control over using different fonts you might
need to pick a font yourself that has Urdu characters defined (though I
think there is a fallback scheme in some cases that picks a character from
some other default font if the current font is missing that symbol).
So, I guess the questions are, what activities did you try typing text
int? What build of Sugar are you using? If testing in the Write activity,
did you go through the different fonts. As a slightly different test, have
you tried changing the language to Urdu to see if activities/Sugar shows the
text localised (if that works you know you at least have a good font
somewhere)?
One last point is that fonts that include many language scripts can be
HUGE files, so it would not surprise me, given the XO storage limitations,
that Sugar builds for specific deployments might likely have been specially
customised to include certain neede scripts, they may not be included in
more generic releases.
Regards,
--Gary
They look similar to what I have seem from some of my multilingual
acquaintances on Facebook.
Anybody know how to do this?
Caryl
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