[Localization] [UKids] Write Activity Updates

[Adam Holt]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Gary Martin <garycmartin at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > 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?


Yes, according to the SKU312 line @
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#XO-4 , Thanks Gary.

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).


Sarah please try this on OS 13.2.2 and 13.2.5 both (from
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases) and let us know what works!

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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