[Localization] Turkish keyboard layout

[Edward Cherlin]

2008/4/21 Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org>:
> Thanks Walter,
> Does this mean you have approved Uzbec, Pashto, French Canadian, and Kazakh?

We don't have localization projects for Uzbek or Kazakh. Should we start them?

Looking at the table, I also see Armenian, for which there is no
localization. Should we start it?

Also, the table specifies a Russian Cyrillic keyboard for Ukrainian,
which is a serious error.

"Note that many langauge/region variants can share a common keyboard,
e.g., Russian (ru_RU) and Ukrainian (uk_UA) both use the Cyrillic
keyboard, but will need different SKUs to accommodate the different
language settings on the laptop."

Not so. Ukrainian requires the letters

Ї U+0407
ї U+0457
Ґ U+0490
ґ U+0491

which don't occur in Russian. See the ua keyboard file.

> I am aware of the need for final approval of Italian, Khmer, and Nepali.
> Quanta is sending these keyboards to OLPC this week.
>
> In the past when Quanta sends a first article for approval, do we need to
> match that up against the design from the wiki page? Or do you recommend
> some other step(s) for final approval?

How about consulting with national standards bodies and Unicode? I can
put you in touch with people who know way more about these issues than
anybody here.

> Thanks,
> Kim
>
>
>
>  On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Actually, I don't recall ever approving a Turkish keyboard... The rest
> > of the table seems up to date as far as I know. I had been in close
> > contact with several groups in Turkey about 12 months ago and at the
> > time, they were advocating the F layout. It would certainly be easy
> > enough to do a Q layout.
> >
> > -walter
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Kim Quirk <kim at laptop.org> wrote:
> > > Walter,
> > > Can you provide the state of the keyboards that have no note in the
> table:
> > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Mfg-data
> > >
> > > I have been assuming that this is the table that is most up to date. If
> > > there is no note in saying 'not yet approved', does that mean they have
> been
> > > through the entire approval cycle? Did you get a physical sample of each
> of
> > > these?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kim
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [Sorry for this flood of Turkish related topics.  It's only
> > > > because I'm working from Turkey -- Captain Obvious]
> > > >
> > > > There seem to be two different keyboard layouts for Tukey,
> > > > the F layout and the Q layout, named after the leftmost key
> > > > of the top row.
> > > >
> > > > >From our wiki and our X11 keyboard file, we seem to have
> > > > picked the F layout:
> > > >
> > > >  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Turkey_Keyboard
> > > >
> > > > But here everybody is telling me that the Q layout is the most
> > > > widely used and the favorite.  All the computers I see around
> > > > me use this layout.
> > > >
> > > > Are we still in time to change the this in production?
> > > >
> > > > This seems to be yet another case where a country-specific
> > > > build would be absolutely required, regardless of our planned
> > > > release cycle.  Obviously we'll get more and more of these
> > > > cases as we deploy to a wider range of countries.  So this
> > > > seems like a good time to discuss how to have per-country
> > > > builds released in parallel with ease.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >  \___/
> > > >  |___|  Bernie Innocenti - http://www.codewiz.org/
> > > >   \___\ CTO OLPC Europe  - http://www.laptop.org/
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