<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Gary Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:garycmartin@gmail.com" target="_blank">garycmartin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On 18 Jul 2015, at 19:44, Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Tim Moody who's away this week, strongly suspects there's an issue with the underlying OS not displaying Arabic characters correctly in the first place on these X-4O's, regardless of the Write activity. Hopefully someone else can confirm, Sarah and her team by testing directly, confirmed by others familiar with how keyboard mapping works?<br>
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</span>Are these XO-4 laptop variants with touch screen hardware support?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, according to the SKU312 line @ <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#XO-4">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#XO-4</a> , Thanks Gary.<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">If so the Maliit based onscreen keyboard [1] supports Arabic out of the box. You would just need to make sure Arabic is chosen as at least one of the languages in the Language Control Panel; restart Sugar; and trigger the on screen touch keyboard (usually by folding the laptop into tablet mode).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sarah please try this on OS 13.2.2 and 13.2.5 both (from <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Releases</a>) and let us know what works!<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I’ve been out of the loop on the Write Activity development for a long time so I can’t remember if there were specific issues with it regarding Arabic, apologies.<br>
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[1] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit_Layouts" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit_Layouts</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit_Layouts#mediaviewer/File:Olpc-xo-grey-fill2-ar.png" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Garycmartin/Maliit_Layouts#mediaviewer/File:Olpc-xo-grey-fill2-ar.png</a><br>
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> Sarah can certainly confirm laptops' SKU# (printed on the XO-4s, underneath the white battery) which would appear to be SKU312 according to <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#XO-4" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#XO-4</a> -- which implies USA/English single-membrane keyboard. Arabic Stickers may have been applied to each key, if I recall Sarah's earlier description.<br>
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> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Sarah Naguib <<a href="mailto:sanaguib@gmail.com">sanaguib@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I hope that all of you have been doing well. I just realized that I have had this email sitting in my drafts for almost a week--I never hit the "send" button!<br>
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</span>> Anyways, I wanted to let everyone know about the updates that I have about translating the Write Activity on my XO4 laptops into Arabic. As of right now, I haven't been able to make it work. I found out that I am using 13.2.2 OS on my XO4, in case some of you were wondering. I checked out <a href="http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ar/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://translate.sugarlabs.org/ar/</a> as some of you suggested, and it seems like the Write Activity is almost completely translated into Arabic, which is great news. I have also tried the same instructions that I included in my original email to try to change the language in the Terminal, and I have had to reflash the laptop three more times since then. I have also tried using the toggle feature so that the computer can theoretically switch between English and Arabic, but I haven't had any luck with that either (I will try that one again, though, because I could have messed up the typing in the Terminal).<br>
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> If anyone has any other suggestions/ideas, please let me know.<br>
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> Thank you all so much for your help and support!<br>
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