[Localization] [support-gang] Language in Write Activity

[Adam Holt]

Thanks Tim & Gonzalo for the great suggestions below:

Can I ask that you include public mailing lists so more can share from this
knowledge please, per Sarah's original email?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:

> To a complete newbie like me on such matters it looks like there are 3
> aspects to getting Arabic or any other non-Roman language to work.
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> 1. For fun I switched my xo4 to Arabic.  I clicked on Write and all the
> prompts are in Arabic, but I still have a Roman keyboard and if I press 'a'
> I see Roman 'a', albeit from right to left (sort of).
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> 2. So I think I need to know how to map my keyboard to Arabic.  Do your
> xos already have an Arabic keyboard with Arabic characters printed on the
> keys?
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> 3. And I need to know how to get an Arabic font.  When I drop down font, I
> only see Roman.
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> I tried to get back to English, but couldn't find it in the language list,
> so I had to reflash.  One thing developers might consider is putting the
> name of the language in its native not translated form, so English not
> (from google translate)
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> الإنجليزية
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> The wikipedia does it that way.
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> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Arabic_Keyboard is this your layout?
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> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_layouts doesn't mention Arabic for
> setxkbmap
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> http://aktub.com/arabic-keyboard-layout/ shows setxkbmap -layout ara
> -variant basic
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> not sure if that is what you tried.
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> I'd like to hear more about what works and what doesn't.
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> *From:* support-gang [mailto:support-gang-bounces at lists.laptop.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Gonzalo Odiard
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 23, 2015 3:08 PM
> *To:* Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT
> laptop.org
> *Cc:* Martin Abente Lahaye
> *Subject:* Re: [support-gang] Language in Write Activity
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> Hi Sarah,
>
> We need more data to understand what is the problem and how to solve it.
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> What software have you installed in your XOs? (You can go to My Settings
> -> About my computer,
>
> and check Build and Sugar version)
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> About Write activity, what is the problem?
>
> Please explain what are you doing, what is the expected result,
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> and what is happening. If you want send screenshots remember Alt+1
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> save a screenshot in the journal.
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> By the way, I am the current maintainer of the activity.
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> You can see the state of acttivities and sugar translations here:
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> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ar/
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> If you want contribute to improve the translations (or find people on site
> who want to do it)
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> you will need create a user on translate.sugarlabs.org and request to the
> admins
>
> (cc in this mail) give you rights to edit the translations.
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>
> Gonzalo
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> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Sarah Naguib <sanaguib at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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>
> I have been working with the recipients of my laptops in Egypt, and we are
> having a little bit of
> trouble with the language. We managed to change the interface language of
> the XO to Arabic, but
> obviously not all of the activites switch over to Arabic on their own. The
> ones that I am having the most trouble with are some of the number
> activities, but most importantly, the Write activity. I did a lot of online
> research about how to switch the language, and I ended up following some
> steps in Terminal, but I'm not sure if I messed up or what because now I
> have to restore the computer back to factory settings. If you have any
> ideas about how I could approach this problem, that would be much
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thank you so much for your time!
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>
>
> Sarah Naguib
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> sanaguib at gmail.com
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