[Localization] Please test the SCIM based Amharic keyboard layout

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Hi Tegegne,
Thanks for the input.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:59 AM, tegegne tefera <tefera.tegegne at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hei Edward and Saymundu
>
> There is some thing terribly wrong with the character mapping as it stands
> on the db file. That is mapping the first letter (as it is known geez in
> Amharic) to the lower case characters in Latin scripts. Mapping this way
> almost doubles the amount of key strokes needed to type a word or a
> sentence.



Are you mentioing the mappings such as: h -> ሀ ?
This is due to the physical design of the keyboard. See
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Amharic_Keyboard for how it looks like.

Thanks,
Sayamindu

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