On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, a dehqan<[email protected]> wrote: > > I was a c++ & PHP programmer before but now i'm not ; > and should someone be a pro programmer to use openmoko ?
You do not need to be a professional programmer to use the Freerunner. > How about keyboard? Is it possible to use farsi or at least arabic key > board without problem? That's something I don't know. You may have to create one yourself. > so how did you send that message ? > you can test with arabic keyboard . I did not type in the message. Instead I used a web browser to view a page that was written in Farsi, selected some text, copied it, and then pasted the text into an SMS message to myself. > what is input method ? "Input method" just means a way of typing characters that are not on your keyboard. For example, in Debian GNU/Linux, one can run this command to use a standard US keyboard to type Persian[1] using the Iranian standard for keyboards[2]: setxkbmap -v -rules xfree86 -model pc104 -layout "us,ir" -option "grp:alt_shift_toggle" -option "grp_led:caps" When I run that on my desktop computer, I am then able to hit ALT+SHIFT to toggle between Farsi and English input. Now when I type ABCabc123 on my keyboard I get ؤژشذز۱۲۳. Of course, that doesn't help you on the Freerunner, which doesn't have a physical keyboard. Someone (perhaps you?) needs to design a Farsi onscreen keyboard. Another person on this thread said that it was relatively easy, but I don't know having never done it. --Ben [1] I copied the setxkbmap example from http://faculty.washington.edu/heer/enablingarabic.htm , with the slight modification that I changed the layout from "us,ar" to "us,ir". That is, I'm using the Iranian layout instead of the Arabic. [2] ISIRI 2901:1994 http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/keyboards/persian.html _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
