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

[Chris Leonard]

Sorry, meant to type "KhmerOS"


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>wrote:

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>  On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> 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?
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
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> 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.
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> http://www.open.org.kh/en/khmeros_finalist_en
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> cjl
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