[Localization] [UKids] Write Activity Updates

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Would be good to know if the text on the interface is translated (like the
palette that appear
if you put the mouse cursor over a toolbar button and wait for a second or
press the
secondary mouse button. That is what is translated in the site
translate.sugarlabs.org
You can try change the activity title or the description (In the activity
tab,
see https://help.sugarlabs.org/write.html#the-toolbars)
Is showing arabic text or not?
Then, try with different fonts and write text on the main white surface
(the page)
Is the text written from right to left or from left to right?
Change the font produce any result?

Gonzalo


On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 7:29 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> 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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