OLPC & Amharic

[Bernardo Innocenti]

(cc devel@)

Jérémie Hornus wrote:

> I assume XKB is the software used to handle various keyboard  
> mappings.

Exactly.


> I was more thinking of key sequences to get given Ethiopic  
> characters.

This would be the "Compose" file used by libX11 for XIM
(X Input Method).

The file is here:

 /usr/share/X11/locale/am_ET.UTF-8 


We can also use the GTK IM for Amharic, which is somewhat better.


> Beside, while sitting here and looking at the keyboard image  
> (wiki.laptop.org/index.php?title=OLPC_Ethiopia_Keyboard&oldid=69544)  
> I have to admit that quite a few choices still puzzle me; they seem,  
> at first glance, going against thoughtful intentions of the EICTDA  
> document. Again, it is difficult to argue without knowledge of the  
> envisaged typing method.

The XIM compose rules were written by Sergey Udaltsov (on cc)

We got an Amharic professor from Harvard check the keyboard layout
and compose method.  I think she told us that both looked fine, but
I may be mistaken.

If you know someone who could explain to us how we could further
improve the Amharic support, I'll put this person in contact with
the others.

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