[Localization] Turkish keyboard layout

Tue May 6 23:28:12 EDT 2008

We're looking for some help on the Turkey keyboard layout. Attached is an
image of the 'Q' layout for Turkey. Can anyone verify the details of this
layout?

Bernie, Arjun,
Can either of you create this alternate Turkey keyboard wiki page and help
figure out what needs to be done for SW support?

Thanks,
Kim

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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