<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 24 June 2013 06:43, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com" target="_blank">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Which build are you running? In the latest Sugar builds, there is a<br>
keyboard settings control panel section. We could probably backport it<br>
to your build if it is reasonably recent.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
<br>Jerry<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Meanwhile, we may have to make a new X keyboard symbols file for you<br>
that does the right thing. Not impossible to get upstreamed.<br>
<br>
regards.<br>
<br>
-walter<br>
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Tom Parker <<a href="mailto:tom@carrott.org">tom@carrott.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I'm looking at how you enter a macron for Māori language users.<br>
><br>
> It seems that the olpc us international keyboard binds a ̄ COMBINING MACRON<br>
> (unicode U+0304) to algr + hyphan. When typed after the letter a you get ā<br>
> which is similar to but not the same as ā LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON<br>
> (unicode U+0101).<br>
><br>
> Issues I've noted with a small amount of testing:<br>
><br>
> On older builds, Write does not correctly load files containing the<br>
> combining macron.<br>
> The combining macron is not rendered at the correct height for lower case<br>
> letters. (on older builds this seems to be the case all the time, on newer<br>
> builds, it is rendered correctly after loading a file until you delete a<br>
> following character the on the same line, then it jumps up)<br>
> You can have more than one combining macron, they stack.<br>
> You have to delete twice, once to delete the macron and again to delete the<br>
> character.<br>
><br>
> Have these issues come up before? I don't see any. I will raise tickets for<br>
> the bugs rendering the macron in the latest version of write shortly. I'm<br>
> not sure if anyone wants a ticket for older builds? Obviously stacking<br>
> macrons is by-design when using the combining macron character (see<br>
> <a href="https://twitter.com/glitchr_/" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/glitchr_/</a> for more improbable outcomes of combining<br>
> characters, perhaps your browser will crash).<br>
><br>
> I haven't yet experimented with entering the ā U+0101 characters into sugar<br>
> (tomorrow!)<br>
><br>
> Apparently on Windows, the Māori keyboard is set up such that when you hit<br>
> the grave (apparently this is what I have always called the backtick) key<br>
> and then one of the vowels, you get the macron version of the vowel. I<br>
> haven't seen this in action but Māori typists claim it is very efficient.<br>
><br>
> Gnome on Ubuntu on my laptop binds right-alt-a to ā U+0101 when using the<br>
> Māori keyboard layout. I'm not sure how Maori typists feel about this<br>
> inconsistency with windows.<br>
><br>
> When you choose the language in sugar, can this change the keyboard layout<br>
> too? If not, what is the recommended way to configure this?<br>
><br>
> How complex is it to change the localization of the keyboard for the Maori<br>
> language? The xkb files don't look too complicated. Is the grave - vowel =<br>
> macron vowel possible while still preserving the backtick for shell<br>
> scripting? I haven't seen the laptops in question but I'm told they have the<br>
> Australian simplified key caps, so changing the existing alt-gr mappings to<br>
> render macron vowels (ie to mimic the Maori keyboard option on Gnome-Ubuntu)<br>
> instead of the existing mappings won't confuse the key caps.<br>
><br>
> Obviously touching all the laptops to change how the keyboard works is a<br>
> pain and the change is potentially erased by future updates.<br>
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