On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 14:04, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: > H Gary and alli, > > I am using 852. Changed to Urdu in settings. Trying to use Write. Writing > across the top is in Urdu, but I am unable to enter Urdu text. It does not > appear in the list of fonts. All I get are the regular ABC letters. Urdu > wasn't listed in texts to choose from.
I am looking at an XO running build 852, Sugar 0.84.16. It has a Language setting, but none for Keyboard. This means that you can change keyboard only at the command line. For a Pakistani Urdu keymap, the command in Terminal is setxkbmap pk I recommend that you enter setxkbmap us beforehand, so that you can recall it from the terminal history with up-arrow in order to get out of Urdu. Or create a script file #!/bin/bash setxkbmap us with some easily-remembered Urdu name. > Tried Farsi instead since it is listed and shares some of the same > characters. Same result. All tabs and instructions are in Farsi, but only > able to type ABCs. > > I will be seeing a niece who is a Farsi speaker this afternoon. She also > knows some Urdu. I thought she could help me with a little project I have, > if I can find out how to get the Activity to output Urdu. > > Is there any listing of which Activities support which languages? Are there > instructions for accessing these languages anywhere on the OLPC wiki? > > Caryl > > > >> CC: support-g...@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org >> From: garycmar...@googlemail.com >> Subject: Re: [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? >> Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 08:47:58 +0000 >> To: cbige...@hotmail.com >> >> Hi Caryl, >> >> On 26 Dec 2010, at 06:42, Caryl Bigenho <cbige...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi... >> > >> > If one had a simple overlay with the Urdu keyboard symbols on it, what >> > would be the exact procedure for switching the keys to Urdu? I tried in My >> > Settings-> Keyboard-> Urdu -> Urdu Pakistan, but the result was a lot of >> > little squares with symbols in them... maybe hex code? >> >> Not my place of expertise, and I don't know if Urdu is specifically >> supported or not, but sounds like your keyboard switch went just fine. What >> you need to be aware of is: >> >> 1) The activity you try to type into needs to support an extended range of >> possible characters, usually this is utf-8. You've probably heard of ASCII, >> well that defines the small set of roman characters along with a few accents >> and symbols western users are used to, utf-8 defines a much larger range of >> characters allowing many more scripts). If utf-8 input is not supported by >> an activity, when you type you'll likely often see several fairly arbitrary >> characters being inserted for each single key press. >> >> 2) The OS build needs to have a font that actualy has characters defined >> for the language script you are trying to use, if there are no available >> fonts to cover a script, little square symbols are usually what are shown >> instead. If your activity has control over using different fonts you might >> need to pick a font yourself that has Urdu characters defined (though I >> think there is a fallback scheme in some cases that picks a character from >> some other default font if the current font is missing that symbol). >> >> So, I guess the questions are, what activities did you try typing text >> int? What build of Sugar are you using? If testing in the Write activity, >> did you go through the different fonts. As a slightly different test, have >> you tried changing the language to Urdu to see if activities/Sugar shows the >> text localised (if that works you know you at least have a good font >> somewhere)? >> >> One last point is that fonts that include many language scripts can be >> HUGE files, so it would not surprise me, given the XO storage limitations, >> that Sugar builds for specific deployments might likely have been specially >> customised to include certain neede scripts, they may not be included in >> more generic releases. >> >> Regards, >> --Gary >> >> > They look similar to what I have seem from some of my multilingual >> > acquaintances on Facebook. >> > >> > Anybody know how to do this? >> > >> > Caryl >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep