[Trac #423] Keyboard - Nigerian

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#423: Keyboard - Nigerian
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 Reporter:  jg         |        Owner:  warp    
     Type:  defect     |       Status:  new     
 Priority:  high       |    Milestone:  BTest-1b
Component:  keyboards  |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:             |  
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Comment (by khassounah):

 Shina from Leapsoft did an amazing job and supplied us with the xkb files
 for the major Nigerian languages to be supported on the Laptop. Attached
 to this bug is the symbol file he created, and following is his
 description of what he provided:

 Please find attached our keymap for Nigerian languages. One size fits all,
 it includes all the diacritics, and other modifiers necessary for one to
 type in any of the Languages. To add modifiers to the character, you press
 the character first, and then add the diacritic or dotbelow, by pressing
 the Alt Gr (right hand side of the space bar)  key, and then the desired
 diacritic. Diacritic modifiers  AFTER you type the letter.
 Some letters, like the special k in hausa, you obtain by pressing Alt Gr
 and the desired letter together. you just include the keymap into
 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/ and either load it with  setxkbmap
 "ng",
 or in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf define the option
 Option "XkbLayout" "foo" replacing foo with the keymap name (in our case,
 ng).

 Shina's email address is: shina <at> wazobialinux.com

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