[Localization] New draft layout for Khmer keyboard: Feedback wanted

[Chris Leonard]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am curious how you will handle the 5 glyphs on the ESC key. Also,
> > why the <-- on the erase key? It is not standard. If you want a
> > graphic, the <X] graphic would be more usual. Finally, has it been
> > considered to add Khmer to the labels of the Ctrl, Alt, Tab, Shift,
> > Enter, and Erase keys as is "standard" in Cambodia?
>
> The layout proposal I received initially had the back-arrow on the
> erase key. I finally managed to get the NiDA standard PDF document
> from http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/node/399 and I've uploaded
> the new draft based on that at
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Sayamindu/Khmer_Keyboard_Draft
>
> It's quite different from what we have been doing so far, but it looks
> like the NiDA standard is quite widespread (I hear that they are even
> printed on school textbooks), so I think it is best to go with that.
>
> I don't think we will be able to print additional Khmer text on the
> Ctrl/Shift/Alt/Alt-Gr keys (except for maybe the Enter key).
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>

It might be worth reaching out to these guys at the KhmerOD project of the
Open Institute, they have experience designing Khmer keyboards and a very
Sugar/OLPC compatible mission.

http://www.open.org.kh/en/khmeros_finalist_en

cjl
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/localization/attachments/20081020/c63e2cd4/attachment.htm