Turkish keyboard layout

Deniz Kural denizkural at gmail.com
Thu May 8 21:01:53 EDT 2008


looks right as far as the alphanumerics go.

2008/5/6 Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org>:

> We're looking for some help on the Turkey keyboard layout. Attached is an
> image of the 'Q' layout for Turkey. Can anyone verify the details of this
> layout?
>
> Bernie, Arjun,
> Can either of you create this alternate Turkey keyboard wiki page and help
> figure out what needs to be done for SW support?
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 2008/4/21 Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org>:
>> > Thanks Walter,
>> > Does this mean you have approved Uzbec, Pashto, French Canadian, and
>> Kazakh?
>>
>> We don't have localization projects for Uzbek or Kazakh. Should we start
>> them?
>>
>> Looking at the table, I also see Armenian, for which there is no
>> localization. Should we start it?
>>
>> Also, the table specifies a Russian Cyrillic keyboard for Ukrainian,
>> which is a serious error.
>>
>> "Note that many langauge/region variants can share a common keyboard,
>> e.g., Russian (ru_RU) and Ukrainian (uk_UA) both use the Cyrillic
>> keyboard, but will need different SKUs to accommodate the different
>> language settings on the laptop."
>>
>> Not so. Ukrainian requires the letters
>>
>> Ї U+0407
>> ї U+0457
>> Ґ U+0490
>> ґ U+0491
>>
>> which don't occur in Russian. See the ua keyboard file.
>>
>> > I am aware of the need for final approval of Italian, Khmer, and Nepali.
>> > Quanta is sending these keyboards to OLPC this week.
>> >
>> > In the past when Quanta sends a first article for approval, do we need
>> to
>> > match that up against the design from the wiki page? Or do you recommend
>> > some other step(s) for final approval?
>>
>> How about consulting with national standards bodies and Unicode? I can
>> put you in touch with people who know way more about these issues than
>> anybody here.
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Kim
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >  On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Walter Bender <
>> walter.bender at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > Actually, I don't recall ever approving a Turkish keyboard... The rest
>> > > of the table seems up to date as far as I know. I had been in close
>> > > contact with several groups in Turkey about 12 months ago and at the
>> > > time, they were advocating the F layout. It would certainly be easy
>> > > enough to do a Q layout.
>> > >
>> > > -walter
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > > > Walter,
>> > > > Can you provide the state of the keyboards that have no note in the
>> > table:
>> > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mfg-data
>> > > >
>> > > > I have been assuming that this is the table that is most up to date.
>> If
>> > > > there is no note in saying 'not yet approved', does that mean they
>> have
>> > been
>> > > > through the entire approval cycle? Did you get a physical sample of
>> each
>> > of
>> > > > these?
>> > > >
>> > > > Thanks,
>> > > > Kim
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Bernie Innocenti <
>> bernie at codewiz.org>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > >
>> > > > > [Sorry for this flood of Turkish related topics.  It's only
>> > > > > because I'm working from Turkey -- Captain Obvious]
>> > > > >
>> > > > > There seem to be two different keyboard layouts for Tukey,
>> > > > > the F layout and the Q layout, named after the leftmost key
>> > > > > of the top row.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > >From our wiki and our X11 keyboard file, we seem to have
>> > > > > picked the F layout:
>> > > > >
>> > > > >  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Turkey_Keyboard
>> > > > >
>> > > > > But here everybody is telling me that the Q layout is the most
>> > > > > widely used and the favorite.  All the computers I see around
>> > > > > me use this layout.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Are we still in time to change the this in production?
>> > > > >
>> > > > > This seems to be yet another case where a country-specific
>> > > > > build would be absolutely required, regardless of our planned
>> > > > > release cycle.  Obviously we'll get more and more of these
>> > > > > cases as we deploy to a wider range of countries.  So this
>> > > > > seems like a good time to discuss how to have per-country
>> > > > > builds released in parallel with ease.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > --
>> > > > >  \___/
>> > > > >  |___|  Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
>> > > > >   \___\ CTO OLPC Europe  - http://www.laptop.org/
>> > > > >
>> > > > > _______________________________________________
>> > > > > Devel mailing list
>> > > > > Devel at lists.laptop.org
>> > > > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> >  Devel mailing list
>> >  Devel at lists.laptop.org
>> >  http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Edward Cherlin
>> End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business
>> http://www.EarthTreasury.org/
>> "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay
>>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Devel mailing list
> Devel at lists.laptop.org
> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/attachments/20080508/a32213a8/attachment.html>


More information about the Devel mailing list