[OLPC New Zealand] Māori Macrons & olpc keyboard

[Barry Vercoe]

Hi, on SHC 205002233
     running 13.1.0 for XO-1.75 (build 20)
     with Sugar 0.98.2
     firmware Q4D24

For Text in both Write and Turtle Art (the Title panel):
     vowel + altgr - gives the Combining Macron, i.e. two bkspcs to 
remove the letter
But if either Activity is saved to the Journal and we write into its 
Description panel
     vowel + altgr - gives the Unicode version, i.e. one bksp removes 
the letter.

So we do have the right behavior in there somewhere.
-- barry


On 25/06/2013 12:13 a.m., Walter Bender wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Jerry Vonau <jerry at laptop.org.au> wrote:
>>
>> On 24 June 2013 06:43, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a
>>> keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it
>>> to your build if it is reasonably recent.
>>>
>> In OLPC's & Dextrose's versions of sugar the sugar-cp-keyboard rpm doesn't
>> get installed. Think there is a conflict over the keyboard with
>> olpc-configure supplied by olpc-utils.
> I can poke around to see if I can get it to work.
>
> -walter
>
>> Jerry
>>
>>> Meanwhile, we may have to make a new X keyboard symbols file for you
>>> that does the right thing. Not impossible to get upstreamed.
>>>
>>> regards.
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Tom Parker <tom at carrott.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm looking at how you enter a macron for Māori language users.
>>>>
>>>> It seems that the olpc us international keyboard binds a ̄  COMBINING
>>>> MACRON
>>>> (unicode U+0304) to algr + hyphan. When typed after the letter a you get
>>>> ā
>>>> which is similar to but not the same as ā LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH
>>>> MACRON
>>>> (unicode U+0101).
>>>>
>>>> Issues I've noted with a small amount of testing:
>>>>
>>>> On older builds, Write does not correctly load files containing the
>>>> combining macron.
>>>> The combining macron is not rendered at the correct height for lower
>>>> case
>>>> letters. (on older builds this seems to be the case all the time, on
>>>> newer
>>>> builds, it is rendered correctly after loading a file until you delete a
>>>> following character the on the same line, then it jumps up)
>>>> You can have more than one combining macron, they stack.
>>>> You have to delete twice, once to delete the macron and again to delete
>>>> the
>>>> character.
>>>>
>>>> Have these issues come up before? I don't see any. I will raise tickets
>>>> for
>>>> the bugs rendering the macron in the latest version of write shortly.
>>>> I'm
>>>> not sure if anyone wants a ticket for older builds? Obviously stacking
>>>> macrons is by-design when using the combining macron character (see
>>>> https://twitter.com/glitchr_/ for more improbable outcomes of combining
>>>> characters, perhaps your browser will crash).
>>>>
>>>> I haven't yet experimented with entering the ā U+0101 characters into
>>>> sugar
>>>> (tomorrow!)
>>>>
>>>> Apparently on Windows, the Māori keyboard is set up such that when you
>>>> hit
>>>> the grave (apparently this is what I have always called the backtick)
>>>> key
>>>> and then one of the vowels, you get the macron version of the vowel. I
>>>> haven't seen this in action but Māori typists claim it is very
>>>> efficient.
>>>>
>>>> Gnome on Ubuntu on my laptop binds right-alt-a to ā U+0101 when using
>>>> the
>>>> Māori keyboard layout. I'm not sure how Maori typists feel about this
>>>> inconsistency with windows.
>>>>
>>>> When you choose the language in sugar, can this change the keyboard
>>>> layout
>>>> too? If not, what is the recommended way to configure this?
>>>>
>>>> How complex is it to change the localization of the keyboard for the
>>>> Maori
>>>> language? The xkb files don't look too complicated. Is the grave - vowel
>>>> =
>>>> macron vowel possible while still preserving the backtick for shell
>>>> scripting? I haven't seen the laptops in question but I'm told they have
>>>> the
>>>> Australian simplified key caps, so changing the existing alt-gr mappings
>>>> to
>>>> render macron vowels (ie to mimic the Maori keyboard option on
>>>> Gnome-Ubuntu)
>>>> instead of the existing mappings won't confuse the key caps.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously touching all the laptops to change how the keyboard works is a
>>>> pain and the change is potentially erased by future updates.
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Walter Bender
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>>
>
>
> --
> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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