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

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>>
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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)
>>
>>
>>
>> الإنجليزية
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>>
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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?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Arabic_Keyboard is the keyboard we
designed and shipped for the XO laptops (membrane keyboards only -- I
never designed an Arabic version of the "high-school" keyboard).

>>
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Keyboard_layouts doesn't mention Arabic for
>> setxkbmap

The ara xkb symbols file is enabled for the OLPC layout.

>>
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>> http://aktub.com/arabic-keyboard-layout/ shows setxkbmap -layout ara
>> -variant basic

You should try the olpc variant.

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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
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Sarah,
>>
>> We need more data to understand what is the problem and how to solve it.
>>
>> What software have you installed in your XOs? (You can go to My Settings
>> -> About my computer,
>>
>> and check Build and Sugar version)
>>
>> About Write activity, what is the problem?
>>
>> Please explain what are you doing, what is the expected result,
>>
>> and what is happening. If you want send screenshots remember Alt+1
>>
>> save a screenshot in the journal.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ar/
>>
>> If you want contribute to improve the translations (or find people on site
>> who want to do it)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Gonzalo
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>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Sarah Naguib <sanaguib at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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!
>>
>>
>>
>> Sarah Naguib
>>
>> --
>>
>> Sarah Naguib
>>
>> www.laptopsforegypt.wordpress.com
>>
>> sanaguib at gmail.com
>>
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