[Sugar-devel] seeking help to enable nepali keyboard input for XO-4

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> walter wrote:
>  > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:48 PM, Basanta Shrestha
>  > <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>  > > They are hard/clicky ones.
>  >
>  > So I think what we should do is a combination of the suggestions made
>  > previously: if you set the manufacturing data (KL)  [1] to tell the
>  > laptops that they have Nepali keyboards, you will be part of the way
>  > there. But we need to make a new variant (KV) for the "hard/clicky"
>  > (HS) keyboard. As I mentioned earlier, we need to decide what the key
>  > combination for switching languages will be, since there is no
>  > physical :Language key.
>
> at what level is the language key handled, on laptops with the
> membrane keyboards?  (i.e., X? sugar?)  that might influence what
> sort of combination is available or useful for doing the switch.

It is handled in X in the xkb symbol file.

-walter

> paul
>
>  >
>  > -walter
>  >
>  > [1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>  > >>
>  > >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Basanta Shrestha
>  > >> <basanta.shrestha at olenepal.org> wrote:
>  > >> > 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.
>  > >>
>  > >> Are these keyboards hard/clicky/high-school style, or soft/membrane?
>  > >>
>  > >> Daniel
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
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