Offer of help for Amharic

[Edward Cherlin]

On Feb 14, 2008 8:23 PM, James <james at openspark.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Now that I have got Amharic working on my G1G1 XO,

Could you put that process on the Wiki? I'm assuming that you used
SCIM, since there isn't an Ethiopian Unix keyboard. Which activities
permit Amharic input?

> I spent some time
> today with a couple of Ethiopian friends, looking at the Amharic
> keyboard input and display.

Do you know anybody who can help with Tigrinya or Ge'ez (for content, not UI)?

> They encountered a number of issues both
> with the keyboard layout and with the way the characters were displayed.

Is that a font issue or a rendering issue, or can you tell?

> How should I report these issues, and to whom?

Bug reports, without question. Can you summarize them on the Amharic
Wiki page, with links to the bugs? There is a template for bug
references.

I put the quite primitive and feeble Ethiopian examples on the Input
Methods page.

> I've already been in touch with Bernardo Innocenti, and have tried to
> contact Marc Maurer (uwog).
>
> I have 10 years' experience as a professional software developer but
> have only recently started working with Linux and Python.  My
> knowledge of Amharic could be written on the back of a table napkin.

Me, too.

> Nonetheless, I feel I could be a useful go-between and might even be
> able to provide a patch or two, if someone could point me at the right
> bits of code to tweak.
>
> James
>
> (Holding a lever of indeterminate length, and looking for a place to
> stand)
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