On Yaum al-Jumma 21 Jumaada al-Awal 1425 07:00 pm, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> You are supposed to implement the national standard keyboard
> layout for countries that have one. Keep that in mind, even if
> the standard is not that popular.
I doubt that there is a national standard keyboard for arabic. Can you or any
one else help me to got that info.
> > The main issues are:
> > 1. applying the mirror property to parenleft/right, bracketleft/right,
> > braceleft/right.
>
> Also "less than" and "greater than".
But those two are not in the same place of their English counterparts so I
haven't faced a problem with them I called the Arabic greater sign greater
and it simply worked.
> > 4. Addingthe ZWJ, ZWNJ, RTM and LRM
> > key <AC07> { [ Arabic_teh, Arabic_tatweel, 0x100200d ] };
> > key <AC09> { [ Arabic_meem, slash, 0x100200e ] };
> > key <AD04> { [Arabic_qaf, Arabic_dammatan, 0x100200f ] };
>
> At FarsiWeb for the Iranian national standard we decided to put
> RLM and LRM on the alternate page accessible using AltGr (right
> alt) as well as many other marks.
>
> > 5. Removing invalid(?) key <LSGT> { [ bar, brokenbar ]
> > };
>
> This key better left untouched.
But I have alreay mapped the bar to the BKSL key which I believe is the
standard
key <BKSL> { [ backslash, bar ] };
This is also not in your ir keyboard! Is it only we who believe in broken bars
as a good thing? ;)
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