[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
** Changed in: xkeyboard-config Status: Confirmed => Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in xkeyboard-config: Unknown Status in xkeyboard-config package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is "ml" this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to "bm", which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the "ml" file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called "bm" and renamed "ml" as "ml-old" I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old "ml" file, not the one I corrected in the "bm" file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my "bm" as "French (Mali, alternative)" with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic "Bambara" keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. "French (Mali, alternative)" is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as "Bambara". Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the "bm" file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
Hello Jean-Jacques, Ehm... how to say this... The filename 'ml' for Bambara layouts is correct. The filenames in the symbols/ directory follow country codes, not language codes. See for example the files for Kenia and Tanzania (symbols/ke and symbols/tz) which both contains layouts for Swahili (swa). There is no sw of swa file, so there should be no bm file either. You should rename your bm file to ml again. It will then still not work, because somewhere hidden there is a mistaken redirect from ml to in(mal), but that has been fixed in xkeyboard-config and should be fixed in the next release of Ubuntu. However, in comment #10 you say that the current Bambara layouts are old and need to be fixed. Could you please file a new bug upstream and post your up-to-date ml file (renamed from bm) here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config Just that layouts file, no need for evdev.xml or anything else. The bare file, not zipped or compressed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
I'm not the repporter of the bug. You want Jean-Jacques. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
Thanks for pointing me to this bug report I did not know about. It may have been fixed in the past - or in redhat or elsewhere (sorry I am so ignorant) - but it's not fixed here at home (Ubuntu), and it's not fixed on the hundreds of Ubuntu workstations at Ecole des Langues Orientales (INALCO, Paris) - I'll check again later this week. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
and sorry, I forgot to repeat : the layout needs anyhow to be fixed as it does not longer reflect the official alphabet, and is remote fro the other current implementations for Windows and for Mac aligned on the SIL recommendations. See the files I posted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
Thanks for pointing me to this bug report I did not know about. It may have been fixed in the past - or in redhat or elsewhere (sorry I am so ignorant) - but it's not fixed here at home (Ubuntu), and it's not fixed on the hundreds of Ubuntu workstations at Ecole des Langues Orientales (INALCO, Paris) - I'll check again later this week. + the layout needs anyhow to be fixed as it does not longer reflect the official alphabet, and is remote fro the other current implementations for Windows and for Mac aligned on the SIL recommendations. See the files I posted. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #647433 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647433 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
** Bug watch added: freedesktop.org Bugzilla #78791 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78791 ** Also affects: xkeyboard-config via https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78791 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Unknown Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
Launchpad has imported 1 comments from the remote bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78791. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2014-05-16T17:19:07+00:00 Søren Bredlund Caspersen wrote: As reported here here on Launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829 there seems to be a problem with Bambara keyboard settings. Copy-pasted from the original bug-report: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard- config/+bug/1299829/comments/7 ** Changed in: xkeyboard-config Status: Unknown = Confirmed ** Changed in: xkeyboard-config Importance: Unknown = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
The issue should probably be reported to upstream on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config ** Package changed: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) = xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
** Package changed: ubuntu = gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1299829] Re: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam.
THANKS for progressing this. HINT : I work at INALCO which is the biggest Language teaching University in France: Languages from all over the world, attended by over 9,000 students. The library (BULAC) runs hundreds of workstations, all under Ubuntu. Switching keyboards here is done several times a day as students change seats ! Fixing the issue for Bambara will be very welcome ! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the name in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is ml this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to bm, which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the ml file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called bm and renamed ml as ml-old I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old ml file, not the one I corrected in the bm file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my bm as French (Mali, alternative) with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic Bambara keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. French (Mali, alternative) is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as Bambara. Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the bm file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
