Re: Help with making keyboard for French (Togo) including symbols from local languages

2015-07-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 07/25/15 05:13 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 06:08:53AM +0200, Mats Blakstad wrote: *Where do people mostly share keyboards?* I checked and looks like we should build this on the Azerty Layout. However in Ubuntu I can't find the azerty layout in simple form like this: http://s

Re: Help with making keyboard for French (Togo) including symbols from local languages

2015-07-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 06:08:53AM +0200, Mats Blakstad wrote: > Thanks all for these interesting and useful inputs! > > *Adding new combinations to XCompose:* > Should I do this locally or is there a shared compose repo where we should > ask to push those changes? Is there a good link with docume

Re: Help with making keyboard for French (Togo) including symbols from local languages

2015-07-24 Thread Mats Blakstad
Thanks all for these interesting and useful inputs! *Adding new combinations to XCompose:* Should I do this locally or is there a shared compose repo where we should ask to push those changes? Is there a good link with documentation? *How to install on several machines?* As we need to modify seve

Re: Help with making keyboard for French (Togo) including symbols from local languages

2015-07-24 Thread James Cloos
> "KM" == Ken Moffat writes: KM> I may well be wrong, but I think you need to add new "combinations" KM> to XCompose That is correct. KM> 1. If the accented letter is not available as a pre-composed letter, Also correct. KM> you need to use a combining accent. I'm not sure if XCompose ca

Re: Help with making keyboard for French (Togo) including symbols from local languages

2015-07-24 Thread JC Ahangama
Ken, I worked with Singhala, categorized as Indic. It is a language spoken in the small island Sri Lanka -- a mix of pure Singhala and Sanskrit. My entire effort was to make it useful for the people and natural to type. It is wonderful to have all sorts of esoteric letters, but how many progr

Re: Help with making keyboard for French (Togo) including symbols from local languages

2015-07-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:30:24PM +0200, Mats Blakstad wrote: > Hi > > I've just started to learn about XKB. Sorry I post my question here if it > is the wrong place, I couldn't find any forum! > > I work on a project for local languages in Togo, we're working on 25 > languages there (en.globalb