Keyboard - Nigerian

[khassounah]

Will get the wazobialinux team to look into this and give us pointers or send a new symbol file.

I found mention fo Hausa (fula) under the Ghana (gh) symbol files, but not Igbo or Yoruba anywhere, if anyone has pointers please post them, but hopefully the wazobia linux folks will have all the answers.

[jg]

I really want the keymaps by B1B.

[khassounah]

Shina from Leapsoft did an amazing job and supplied us with the xkb files for the major Nigerian languages to be supported on the Laptop. Attached to this bug is the symbol file he created, and following is his description of what he provided:

Please find attached our keymap for Nigerian languages. One size fits all, it includes all the diacritics, and other modifiers necessary for one to type in any of the Languages. To add modifiers to the character, you press the character first, and then add the diacritic or dotbelow, by pressing the Alt Gr (right hand side of the space bar) key, and then the desired diacritic. Diacritic modifiers AFTER you type the letter. Some letters, like the special k in hausa, you obtain by pressing Alt Gr and the desired letter together. you just include the keymap into /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/ and either load it with setxkbmap "ng", or in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf define the option Option "XkbLayout" "foo" replacing foo with the keymap name (in our case, ng).

Shina's email address is: shina <at> wazobialinux.com

[khassounah]

Nigeran languages symbl file

[walter]

Made a version for B2 that uses the Nigerian keyboard as currently laid out. To be revisited for B3

[walter]

B2 version of NG

[krstic]

Re-opening as per Walter's last comment.

[walter]

added olpc variant (See tickets #443 and #418)

[J5]

should be in build 219

[J5]

in build 221, please reopen if new keymaps are added