On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:54 +0200, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > > Behdad is also on cc because > > I remember he was quite a guru of these things (let us > > know if you just want to be left in peace). > > Thanks for adding. I never mind. > > Excuse my ignorance; I'm not familiar with Amharic requirements. I > think the question comes down to whether the Amharic keyboard layout is > enough or whether an input method is needed. If keyboard layout is > enough, then just removing the input method from GTK+ seems to do it.
The Ethiopian writing system is a syllabary with 345 characters, and does not fit on a keyboard layout. There is a SCIM IME for Amharic, and one called EZ+. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/SCIM#Ethiopic.2FAmharic Numerous other methods of entering Amharic exist, using different encodings and keyboard layouts, and non-Unicode fonts. Some of these methods are used on Web sites, including e-mail, providing their own methods for typing. A Latin alphabet keyboard such as standard US QWERTY can be used for these. What was the question? > -- > behdad > http://behdad.org/ > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little > Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
