[Localization] [UKids] Write Activity Updates

[Adam Holt]

Tim Moody who's away this week, strongly suspects there's an issue with the
underlying OS not displaying Arabic characters correctly in the first place
on these X-4O's, regardless of the Write activity.  Hopefully someone else
can confirm, Sarah and her team by testing directly, confirmed by others
familiar with how keyboard mapping works?

Sarah can certainly confirm laptops' SKU# (printed on the XO-4s, underneath
the white battery) which would appear to be SKU312 according to
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#XO-4 -- which implies
USA/English single-membrane keyboard.  Arabic Stickers may have been
applied to each key, if I recall Sarah's earlier description.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Sarah Naguib <sanaguib at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I hope that all of you have been doing well. I just realized that I have
> had this email sitting in my drafts for almost a week--I never hit the
> "send" button!
>
> Anyways, I wanted to let everyone know about the updates that I have about
> translating the Write Activity on my XO4 laptops into Arabic. As of right
> now, I haven't been able to make it work. I found out that I am using
> 13.2.2 OS on my XO4, in case some of you were wondering. I checked out
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ar/ as some of you suggested, and it seems
> like the Write Activity is almost completely translated into Arabic, which
> is great news. I have also tried the same instructions that I included in
> my original email to try to change the language in the Terminal, and I have
> had to reflash the laptop three more times since then. I have also tried
> using the toggle feature so that the computer can theoretically switch
> between English and Arabic, but I haven't had any luck with that either (I
> will try that one again, though, because I could have messed up the typing
> in the Terminal).
>
> If anyone has any other suggestions/ideas, please let me know.
>
> Thank you all so much for your help and support!
>
> Sarah
>
> --
> Sarah Naguib
> www.laptopsforegypt.wordpress.com
> sanaguib at gmail.com
>
> --
> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Unleash Kids" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to unleashkids+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
>
> --
> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org !
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/localization/attachments/20150718/6a3cf447/attachment.html>