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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com">sayamindu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello,<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Walter Bender <<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I am curious how you will handle the 5 glyphs on the ESC key. Also,<br>
> why the <-- on the erase key? It is not standard. If you want a<br>> graphic, the <X] graphic would be more usual. Finally, has it been<br>> considered to add Khmer to the labels of the Ctrl, Alt, Tab, Shift,<br>
> Enter, and Erase keys as is "standard" in Cambodia?<br><br></div>The layout proposal I received initially had the back-arrow on the<br>erase key. I finally managed to get the NiDA standard PDF document<br>from <a href="http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/node/399" target="_blank">http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/node/399</a> and I've uploaded<br>
the new draft based on that at<br><a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Sayamindu/Khmer_Keyboard_Draft" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Sayamindu/Khmer_Keyboard_Draft</a><br><br>It's quite different from what we have been doing so far, but it looks<br>
like the NiDA standard is quite widespread (I hear that they are even<br>printed on school textbooks), so I think it is best to go with that.<br><br>I don't think we will be able to print additional Khmer text on the<br>
Ctrl/Shift/Alt/Alt-Gr keys (except for maybe the Enter key).<br><br>Thanks,<br>Sayamindu<br><font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote>
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<div>It might be worth reaching out to these guys at the KhmerOD project of the Open Institute, they have experience designing Khmer keyboards and a very Sugar/OLPC compatible mission.</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.open.org.kh/en/khmeros_finalist_en">http://www.open.org.kh/en/khmeros_finalist_en</a></div>
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<div>cjl</div></div></div>