Re: [IAEP] Still Trying... How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 02:23, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks... Still trying! As noted below, I followed Tim's instructions and downloaded the Urdu character set. However, I was not able to access it from Write. Do you mean that it did not show up in the font menu, or that you could not type it? Can you paste Urdu text in from another source? I spent some time working on this with a person who speaks and reads several middle eastern languages. Any ideas? What should I try next? Has anyone changed to another character set on their own rather than getting it that way from the factory? Yes, several of us have done it. Please note the Urdu version of my name in my sig block. I will add a chapter on character set, language, and font settings to the book I am writing, under the heading The Undiscoverable. http://booki.flossmanuals.net/discovering-discovery/edit/ Please send any other unanswered questions. Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:41:09 -0800 Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? Thanks Tim. The download seems to have gone smoothly. It reported that paktype/teheer is now available. However, when I went to the Write Activity, it did not appear among the available choices. Will it have a different name? There are several fonts labeled with letter codes such as kacstPen, cmsy10, wasy10, etc. Caryl Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:45:00 +1300 From: mcnamara@gmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Ed Cherlin suggests installing an Urdu font (on the XO, I assume). So, where do I find instructions for doing this and the file I would need to download to the XO? Why isn't it already there or on the wiki. People are using Urdu keyboards, right? Caryl Hi Caryl, This was hinted at during the original answer. Connect the XO to the Internet, open the Terminal Activity and run yum install ttf-paktype/tehreer This asks Fedora to install the typeface for you. Do let me know how you get on. Tim �...@timclicks Director, Kiwi PyCon 2011 ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ 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
Re: [IAEP] Still Trying... How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Folks... Still trying! As noted below, I followed Tim's instructions and downloaded the Urdu character set. However, I was not able to access it from Write. I spent some time working on this with a person who speaks and reads several middle eastern languages. Any ideas? What should I try next? Has anyone changed to another character set on their own rather than getting it that way from the factory? There are three different issues here being convolved: the language, the font, and the keyboard. You should be able to use the Sugar control panel to set the language so that Urdu is used for menus, messages, etc. (it appears Urdu only has about 20% coverage at the moment); instructions for loading the font have already been described earlier in the thread (without the proper font, you'll see the funny Unicode squares); and the keyboard, which comes with a factory default to match the physical keyboard installed on the machine. To override this setting, use the instructions found here: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Customizing_NAND_images#Keyboard -walter Caryl -- From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:41:09 -0800 Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? Thanks Tim. The download seems to have gone smoothly. It reported that paktype/teheer is now available. However, when I went to the Write Activity, it did not appear among the available choices. Will it have a different name? There are several fonts labeled with letter codes such as kacstPen, cmsy10, wasy10, etc. Caryl -- Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:45:00 +1300 From: mcnamara@gmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.comwrote: Hi... Ed Cherlin suggests installing an Urdu font (on the XO, I assume). So, where do I find instructions for doing this and the file I would need to download to the XO? Why isn't it already there or on the wiki. People are using Urdu keyboards, right? Caryl Hi Caryl, This was hinted at during the original answer. Connect the XO to the Internet, open the Terminal Activity and run yum install ttf-paktype/tehreer This asks Fedora to install the typeface for you. Do let me know how you get on. Tim @timClicks Director, Kiwi PyCon 2011 ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Still Trying... How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?
Hi Folks... Still trying! As noted below, I followed Tim's instructions and downloaded the Urdu character set. However, I was not able to access it from Write. I spent some time working on this with a person who speaks and reads several middle eastern languages. Any ideas? What should I try next? Has anyone changed to another character set on their own rather than getting it that way from the factory? Caryl From: cbige...@hotmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:41:09 -0800 Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? Thanks Tim. The download seems to have gone smoothly. It reported that paktype/teheer is now available. However, when I went to the Write Activity, it did not appear among the available choices. Will it have a different name? There are several fonts labeled with letter codes such as kacstPen, cmsy10, wasy10, etc. Caryl Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:45:00 +1300 From: mcnamara@gmail.com To: support-g...@lists.laptop.org Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Caryl Bigenho cbige...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi... Ed Cherlin suggests installing an Urdu font (on the XO, I assume). So, where do I find instructions for doing this and the file I would need to download to the XO? Why isn't it already there or on the wiki. People are using Urdu keyboards, right? Caryl Hi Caryl, This was hinted at during the original answer. Connect the XO to the Internet, open the Terminal Activity and run yum install ttf-paktype/tehreer This asks Fedora to install the typeface for you. Do let me know how you get on. Tim @timClicks Director, Kiwi PyCon 2011 ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ support-gang mailing list support-g...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
