Yes Sayamindu<br>The mapping should have been h -> ህ or l -> ል.<br>As it stands now it is h -> ሀ and l -> ለ<br><br>I see the physical design of the keyboard and having the first letter to represent the key should not make any difference. I have not seen any paper or suggestion on which letter should be written on the key. one can make a case for both of them. But my concern is the mapping, that is which letter should be shown on the screen when the key is hit without a qualifier (vauel). And there is a universal agreement that it should be the 6th charactor since almost 60% of charactors in Amharic words or sentences are made up of the 6th charactor and the 1st charactor has only about 20 to 30% frequency. And XO will be the only computer that will be using this method. That would not be good for the childeren as well as for the whole industry.<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sayamindu@gmail.com">sayamindu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Tegegne,<br>
Thanks for the input.<br>
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On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 1:59 AM, tegegne tefera <<a href="mailto:tefera.tegegne@gmail.com">tefera.tegegne@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hei Edward and Saymundu<br>
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> There is some thing terribly wrong with the character mapping as it stands<br>
> on the db file. That is mapping the first letter (as it is known geez in<br>
> Amharic) to the lower case characters in Latin scripts. Mapping this way<br>
> almost doubles the amount of key strokes needed to type a word or a<br>
> sentence.<br>
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</div>Are you mentioing the mappings such as: h -> ሀ ?<br>
This is due to the physical design of the keyboard. See<br>
<a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Amharic_Keyboard" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Amharic_Keyboard</a> for how it looks like.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Sayamindu<br>
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Sayamindu Dasgupta<br>
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