[Localization] [UKids] Write Activity Updates

[Gary Martin]

> On 18 Jul 2015, at 19:44, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?

Are these XO-4 laptop variants with touch screen hardware support? If so the Maliit based onscreen keyboard [1] supports Arabic out of the box. You would just need to make sure Arabic is chosen as at least one of the languages in the Language Control Panel; restart Sugar; and trigger the on screen touch keyboard (usually by folding the laptop into tablet mode). I’ve been out of the loop on the Write Activity development for a long time so I can’t remember if there were specific issues with it regarding Arabic, apologies.

Regards,
—Gary

[1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit_Layouts
[2] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit_Layouts#mediaviewer/File:Olpc-xo-grey-fill2-ar.png

> 
> 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
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