Re: Offer of help for Amharic

2008-02-16 Thread James
On 16 Feb 2008, at 00:04, Edward Cherlin wrote: I have got Amharic working on my G1G1 XO... Could you put that process on the Wiki? I'm assuming that you used SCIM, since there isn't an Ethiopian Unix keyboard. Hi Edward, Many thanks for providing me with a foothold! The process for getting

Re: Offer of help for Amharic

2008-02-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Feb 14, 2008 8:23 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Now that I have got Amharic working on my G1G1 XO, Could you put that process on the Wiki? I'm assuming that you used SCIM, since there isn't an Ethiopian Unix keyboard. Which activities permit Amharic input? I spent

Offer of help for Amharic

2008-02-14 Thread James
Hello everyone, Now that I have got Amharic working on my G1G1 XO, I spent some time today with a couple of Ethiopian friends, looking at the Amharic keyboard input and display. They encountered a number of issues both with the keyboard layout and with the way the characters were

Re: Offer of help for Amharic

2008-02-14 Thread Walter Bender
In the short term, there is not much we can do about the physical layout of the keyboard. But getting the rest of the Amharic input issues sorted out would be very helpful. A first step would be to start a collector ticket in Trac for all the open issues. regards. -walter On 2/14/08, James