[Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard

[Walter Bender]

I think issue is enabling the switching back and forth. We have a
dedicated key on the membrane keyboards, but not the 'standard'
keyboards. Maybe we make it an altgr key of some sort...

-walter

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this helps, but it's what I use for Devanagari.  Of course,
> it's aimed at people familiar with Roman keyboards.
>
> http://www.ubcsanskrit.ca/keyboards.html
>
>
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 07:13:01 -0500
> From: Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> To: Basanta Shrestha <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org>
> Cc: OLPC Devel <devel at lists.laptop.org>, Sugar Devel
> <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard
> input for XO-4
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> A bit tricky because we don't have that key anymore (but we could come
> up with some other key combination to enable it). Also, are you
> planning to use stickers or some other way to add the proper glyths to
> the keyboard?
>
> Happy to explore this with you further.
>
> regards.
>
> -walter
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Basanta Shrestha
> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am writing this mail seeking a clue on where to start looking to enable
>> Nepali input in XO4. For XO-1 we had nepali keyboard and there was a
>> button
>> just below the "enter" button which would switch input between English and
>> Nepali. And that was very convenient.
>>
>> But for XO-4 we will just be getting ones with English layout. I was
>> wondering how we can enable nepali keyboard input on it. I can see that
>> the
>> key maping file for nepali is already there under
>> /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/
>>
>> Thank you .
>>
>> --
>> Basanta Shrestha
>> OLE Nepal
>>
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