<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">To: Marina (OLPC project worker, Hà Nội), OLPC Localization list<div><br></div><div>Hi everyone :)</div><div><br></div><div>Marina has asked me:</div><div><br><div><div>On 07/04/2010, at 9:51 AM, Marina wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>Do you know if anyone is working on fixing the keyboard symbols in Vietnamese on the XOs?</div><div>It is very important, as children can not type in their own language right now, which makes it difficult.</div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Is there any progress on this issue? On 2010-03-16, Simos Xenitellis commented:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite">I can get the characters for 6, 7 and 9 in another keyboard layout, which means<br>that something is merely wrong in the keyboard layout you are using<br>for Vietnamese<br>on the OLPC.<br><br>To frame the issue, it is more like a case of not having the keyboard<br>layout tested early.<br><br>Technical background: I do not know whether Vietnamese uses 'SCIM' or 'GTK+ IM'<br>on the OLPC. Sayamindu?<br>1. If the OLPC uses 'SCIM', then you need to fix the SCIM layout for Vietnamese.<br>2. If the OLPC uses 'GTK+ IM', then those characters for cases 6, 7, 9<br>are verified to work,<br>so again it is a case of fixing the keyboard layout from XOrg. The<br>keyboard layout file<br>for Vietnamese is /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/vn</blockquote><br></div><div>but nobody responded. Sayamindu, sorry to bother you with yet another question, but can you answer Simos' query? Can you try fixing the layout if it's GTK?</div><div><br></div><div>I had to amend the X11 layout on OSX to enable dead-key use in inputting Vietnamese, so the consequent wiki article might be useful:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/X11Keymaps">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/X11Keymaps</a></div><div><br></div><div>Nancie has told me I will be receiving a loan XO so I can help, but so far I haven't received any formal notification (nor the machine itself), so I feel like someone's bleeding next to me, and all I can do is tell them where to buy bandages in the next town. :(</div><br><div>
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