<div>Walter,</div>
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<div>As Arjun mentions, I&#39;ve been following up on Devanagari keyboard questions that remain for my &quot;keyboard naming&quot; proposal.&nbsp; He&#39;s been kind enough to ask around.</div>
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<div>Two general classes seem to emerge.</div>
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<div>a) One keyboard will serve (mostly) one language in many countries. I&#39;ve proposed to name&nbsp;by OLPC_<em>Language</em>_Keyboard formula.</div>
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<div>For example OLPC_Spanish_Keyboard will do service in many countries in Latin Americas, perhaps side-by-side with indigenous language keyboards.</div>
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<div>b) One keyboard will serve several languages, typically found in that blend in one (or a few)&nbsp;country(ies). Name as OLPC_<em>Country</em>_Keyboard.</div>
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<div>For example OLPC_Nigeria_Keyboard (serves Igbo, Youruba, Hausa languages)</div>
<div><br>The use&nbsp;of script/alphabet as a naming convention is less desirable as there are so many sub-variations on Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, etc.</div>
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<div>It looks to me that the Devanagari keyboard falls into the second category and perhaps should&nbsp;be named OLPC_India_Keyboard.&nbsp; </div>
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<div>India&nbsp;is home to&nbsp;an unusually rich collection of languages and I can easily imagine there being multiple keyboards designed purely for the purpose of deployments within India.&nbsp; At that time, the convention could&nbsp;be adapted&nbsp;by the simple addition of numbering OLPC_India_Keyboard1, OLPC_India_Keyboard2 or other means.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Arjun Sarwal &lt;<a href="mailto:arjun@laptop.org">arjun@laptop.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Our idea is to document the languages covered by the various keyboard<br>layouts and make that a part of the respective Keyboard Layouts wiki<br>
pages.<br><br>Also<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Conventions#Keyboard_Layouts_page_naming.2Ftagging_proposal" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Conventions#Keyboard_Layouts_page_naming.2Ftagging_proposal</a><br>
has been proposed by cjl.<br><br>Please let us know your thoughts/suggestions.<br><br><br>thanks<br><font color="#888888">Arjun<br></font>
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<div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:31 AM, Walter Bender &lt;<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; I don&#39;t recall the original purpose of the question, but although the<br>
&gt; Devanagari script is used for many languages, please note that many of<br>&gt; these prefer unique keyboard layouts, e.g., Nepali.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; -walter<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Sameer Verma &lt;<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; &gt; Manusheel Gupta wrote:<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt; Sanskrit language will need OLPC Devanagari Keyboards too.<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt; List:<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt; 1. Hindi<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt; 2. Marathi<br>
&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt; 3. Sanskrit<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt; Regards,<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt; Manu<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;&gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;As per Wikipedia (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari</a>) and some<br>
&gt; &gt; &nbsp;other sites:<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;Languages that use Devanagari are - Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit,<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;Pali (I&#39;m not so sure about this one...) Bihari, Bhili, Marwari,<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;Konkani, Bhojpuri, Pahari (Garhwali and Kumaoni), Santhali, Newari,<br>
&gt; &gt; &nbsp;Tharu, Sindhi, Panjabi, and Kashmiri.<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;Sameer<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;--<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;Associate Professor of Information Systems<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;San Francisco State University<br>
&gt; &gt; &nbsp;San Francisco CA 94132 USA<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;<a href="http://verma.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://verma.sfsu.edu/</a><br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;<a href="http://opensource.sfsu.edu/" target="_blank">http://opensource.sfsu.edu/</a><br>
&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;_______________________________________________<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;India mailing list<br>&gt; &gt; &nbsp;<a href="mailto:India@lists.laptop.org">India@lists.laptop.org</a><br>
&gt; &gt; &nbsp;<a href="http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india" target="_blank">http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/india</a><br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt;<br><br><br><br></div></div>--<br>
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<div class="Wj3C7c">Arjun Sarwal<br><a href="http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/~arjs</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>