#6945 BLOC Update1: MFG Problem: Ethiopian keyboards don't provide English characters

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#6945: MFG Problem: Ethiopian keyboards don't provide English characters
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  Reporter:  kimquirk   |       Owner:  sayamindu
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  blocker    |   Milestone:  Update1.1
 Component:  keyboards  |     Version:           
Resolution:             |    Keywords:           
  Verified:  0          |    Blocking:           
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Comment(by sayamindu):

 Replying to [comment:16 kimquirk]:
 > I just answered my own question. Ouch! I fixed the mfg-data so that
 KL="us,et", with no space, then I re-imaged 704 and now I get both English
 AND Amharic.
 >
 > Is is a reasonable request to ask that the code we control (olpc-utils,
 or whatever) allow for a space or no space? Unfortunately, we can't ask
 Ethiopia to change their mfg-data.


 a tr -d '[:space:]' should do the trick (it will remove all spaces).
 However, I'm not sure if it's safe to include this now, since it might
 mess up some configurations which require the use of space. Does such a
 configuration exist ?
 Mstone - any comments on this ?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6945#comment:17>
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