[Localization] Mongolian/English Keyboard switching

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 2:18 AM, Cris <canderson at laptop.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Just something I have noticed will need to be addressed for Mongolia.
> When the pilot was conducted in January of this year, the 1000 laptops
> that were deployed did not have Mongolian keyboards.  With the new OS
> builds that have come out since then, Mongolian keyboard support has
> been added (and the new laptops arriving have Mongolian keyboards).
> However, there are 1000 kids that have laptops that can only write
> English.  Is it possible that someone has come up with a script that
> replaces the keyboard config file and allows them to do switching like
> the newer keyboards? The config file is located in
> /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
>
> Right now, the config file looks like this:
>
>  XKB_MODEL="olpc"
>  XKB_LAYOUT="us"
>  XKB_VARIANT="olpc"
>  KEYTABLE="us"
>
> And needs to look like this (for them):
>
>  XKB_MODEL="olpc"
>  XKB_LAYOUT="us,mn"
>  XKB_VARIANT="olpc2,olpc"
>  KEYTABLE="us"
>

Cris,

It looks like the manufacturing data in the pilot laptops does not
have information for Mongolian in them. In that case, even if you run
a script which will update the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file, it will
be overwritten during any kind of OS upgrade.

Which build are these machines running? We have had some fixes for the
Mongolian keyboard go into recent builds of the OS.

Thanks,
Sayamindu


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