Keyboard - Arabic.

[warp]

A little different from KH's map, there are a difference or two that he missed, but a few that I missed too.

To switch: DISPLAY=:0 setxkbmap -rules base -model evdev -layout us,ara -variant intl,olpc -option grp:switch

[warp]

Replacement keyboard section for xorg.conf.

[warp]

These were, er, for the Arabic layout. Maybe swap the namings on the bugs?

[J5]

The ara file change is in build 174. My understanding is that the xorg.conf changes will go into the release notes so we should keep this bug open for now.

[khassounah]

Replying to warp:

A little different from KH's map, there are a difference or two that he missed, but a few that I missed too. To switch: DISPLAY=:0 setxkbmap -rules base -model evdev -layout us,ara -variant intl,olpc -option grp:switch

[khassounah]

Zephaniah,

I have to disagree with almost all of the deltas from my file :)..

Why are the following lines missing the shirt characters? The ones in the original ara base are absolutely right. The braceleft, braceright, colon, and quotedbl are still part of the arabic keybaord:

key <AD11> { [ Arabic_jeem ] }; key <AD12> { [ Arabic_dal ] }; key <AC10> { [ Arabic_kaf ] }; key <AC11> { [ Arabic_tah ] };

The following didn't change from the original base, why are they included in the olpc section? Although I think the confusion in the first is that Arabic_ha and Arabic_heh are different names for the same character:

key <AD08> { [ Arabic_heh, division ] }; key <AB04> { [ Arabic_ra, Arabic_kasratan ] };

If those are removed, we end up with where I started. If those arguments are accepted, and the changes are made to this file, it becomes identical to the one I posted earlier.

[warp]

Specificly, those are indicated to be without a shift state in the documentation that I have.

Either way works though, I suppose.

[khassounah]

Zephaniah,

If you mean the excel sheet that Walter was putting together, then the convension we followed (at least for arabic) was that we kept the shift status empty for keys that were the same for english and arabic. In hindsight, I can see why that would have been confusing.

I think it make a difference whether they are one way or the other. Not having a colon, or doublt quotes in the arabic keyboard means that the user will have to switch languages everytime they want to type one of those four characters (some are used often).

Khaled

[khassounah]

Latest ara file uploaded based on discussion with Zephaniah

[jg]

I really want the keymaps in B1B.

[walter]

Added support for Language key <AB11>

[walter]

B2 version of ARA

[krstic]

Re-opening as per Walter's last comment.

[J5]

should be in build 219

[J5]

in build 221, please reopen if new keymaps are added

[khaled]

The current keyboard layout isn't working as expected.

One thing is the brackets, with the current layout, right and left brackets doesn't match what the user would expect when typing from right to left. As the user will be reading the keys from right to left, what is now "braceright" will be interpreted as "braceleft" and so, simply we can solve this by reversing the keys with no change to the printed graphics on the keys.

The other issue is the percent sign, the Arabic layout is using Arabic-Indic digits and thus should use Arabic percent sign, this will need printing it on the key.

The attached patch fixes both issues.

[khaled]

Patch to fix brackets and percent sign

[J5]

bernie were these put into your package

[jg]

Bernie, is this fixed?

[bernie]

We have an "ara" symbol file, but it is quite different from the original attachment, and I'm afraid I don't know how it came to be so.

The changes in key mappings are consistent, and the ara.diff patch from two months ago would totally not apply. I don't think any of the comments above are relevant any more.

I'd say, let's just close this bug and maybe file a new one for the new layout if we find new problems.

[jg]

Khaled, could you try the current builds and let us know how the layout is now?

[khaled]

Replying to jg:

Khaled, could you try the current builds and let us know how the layout is now?

I'm testing 593 build, non of the issues mentioned above seems to be fixed, even worse, many keys now doesn't map the expected letter (as printed on my B4 machine) as Arabic keyboard layout has been altered upstream. I'm preparing a new patch as the older one doesn't apply any more.

[jg]

Sigh... Thanks....

[khaled]

A more recent patchِِِ

[bernie]

An updated version of xkeyboard-config including ara2.diff is in joyride.

Thanks!