[Localization] German and French keyboard layouts

Yama Ploskonka yama at netoso.com
Fri Feb 13 23:20:57 EST 2009


This would be such a non-issue with laser-etched contrasting layers.



> OLPC will create keyboards for countries that order XOs in quantity.
> They were not prepared to create 40 or more layouts for every country
> in G1G1, with no advance information on how many of each would be
> needed, and decided not to create any new ones, or even to order
> keyboards for supported European languages. Some of this has to do
> with Amazon policy and Federal Trade Commission regulations on the
> maximum time between accepting orders and shipping the product,
> combined with the lack of determinate scheduling at the factory, as a
> condition for getting the lowest prices on parts. Some of it is that
> even for the same language, keyboard layouts vary by country on such
> matters as currency symbols.


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