I believe that any Filipino keyboard has to have provisions for accenting words. The accent key is pressed first, and the the letter to which to apply the accent is pressed next.
You need the following accent marks: ´ Pahilís (Acute) ` Paiwà (Grave) ˆ Pakupyâ (Circumflex)For example to type the word Paiwà, you need to type the characters in the order P-a-i-w-`-a, where [`] is the key for "grave accent", not the back slash key. Typing [`]-[a] produces the accented letter à. Similarly for the acute accent key and the circumflex accent key. Other examples of accented words are: mabilís, mayumÌ, maragsâ. Salamat. ~Pablo Manalastas~ 2010/10/10 JC 施洗 John ᜑᜓᜏᜈ᜔ Sese 謝 Cuneta ᜃᜓᜈᜒᜆ < [email protected]> > Hi everyone, > > Attached is the X Keyboard file that you can use to try out v2 of the > Philippines National Keyboard Layout, hopefully will become the official one > down the road. Before the long explanation, here's a HowTo install: > > ---------------------------------- > > * Just put the "ph" file in: /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols > > Step 1.0: Open these two files > gksu gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst > gksu gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst (xfree86.lst) > > Step 1.1 Search for: ! variant > Step 1.2 before it, add > ph Philippines > > Step 2.0: Open these two files > gksu gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.xml > gksu gedit /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml (xfree86.xml) > > Step 2.1 Search for: </layoutList> > Step 2.2 before it, add > <layout> > <configItem> > <name>ph</name> > <shortDescription>Phi</shortDescription> > <description>Philippines</description> > <languageList><iso639Id>eng</iso639Id></languageList> > </configItem> > <variantlist/> > </layout> > > ---------------------------------- > > Now for the long explanation: > First of all, I decided to base this new National keyboard layout on the > (soon-to-be standard) ISO/IEC 9995-3:2009 keyboard layout. This is to make > sure that if ever this becomes the official or *de facto* keyboard for > Filipinos, the characters will not change much if we bought a different > keyboard or we're in another country (well, that was the idea of ISO but > only Canada and some other country uses the ISO layout, we might become the > third). > > Secondly, I only "activated" the characters that I have personally seen in > used by Filipinos here in the Philippines (regular citizens to businesses). > That means this is only a partial ISO-based keyboard. My guideline is, if > there is no valid reason to add a character, then do not add it. > > Third, I added the ₱eso sign and enye Ññ both of which are not part of > ISO/IEC 9995-3:2009 keyboard layout. The reason is simple, this is a > "National" keyboard for us, it is only appropriate to add these two > characters since we use these. > > The guidelines I used: > a) Prioritized the layout of ISO/IEC 9995-3 > b) Next, prioritized the keys that Filipinos actually use > c) Next, do not deviate away from the methods used by ISO in typing similar > characters (eg: ¥ and ₱, as explained below) > > Next, I'm going to run down the characters I added > 1) ₱eso sign - to type press: AltGr+Shift+P > -- Why? The Japanese ¥en / Chinese ¥uan sign is typed as: AltGr+Shift+Y. > I do not want to deviate away from that method. > -- Why not 3, 4 or 5? 3 have #³£; 4 already have $¼€; 5 have %½↑ > -- And Guideline letter C above. > > 2) Ññ - to type press: AltGr+Shift+N for uppercase; AltGr+n for lowercase > 3) Number keys from 1 to 0 have the following: Level 3 (AltGr) --> > ¹²³¼½¾⅛⅜⅝⅞; Level 4 (AltGr+Shift) --> ¡¤£€↑↓←→±™ > > From hereon, it is always: Level 3 (AltGr) first then followed by Level 4 > (AltGr+Shift) > 4) e: œ Œ - "oe", still being used in English today. fœderal; diarrhœa > 5) r: ¶ ® - "¶" signifies end of paragraph; and Registered Trademark sign > 6) y: ɼ ¥ - I have to add ɼ (AltGr+y) so AltGr+Shift+Y (¥) will work. > 7) p: þ ₱ - I have to add þ (AltGr+p) so AltGr+Shift+P (₱) will work. The > þ character looks like the emoticon :p anyway. > 8) a: æ Æ - "ae", still being used in English today. Archœology; Æon Flux > 9) ;: ° (degrees sign), so we can now type easily: It's too hot today! > Ubuntu weather reports 28°C T_T > 10) \: ə Ə (schwa, usually used in text books and by linguists) > 11) z: « - double-left arrow > 12) x: » - double-right arrow > 13) c: ¢ © - cents and Copyright > 14) v: “ ‘ - a stylish double quote and single quote; Office suites and > WYSIWYG's actually use these ones > 15) b: “ ‘ - a stylish double quote and single quote; Office suites and > WYSIWYG's actually use these ones > 16) n: ñ Ñ > 17) m: µ º - micro symbol, example: µblog. º means an "ordinal number", so > if I put 1º it reads as "1st"; 2º it reads as 2nd. We don't really use > this, maybe mathematicians and physicists do. Besides, there's a space for > AltGr+Shift+M if I don't add it, might as well use it. > 18) ,: … × - "…" is a *single* character "..." (ellipsis). Useful for > microbloggers, saves you two characters. Next is the Multiplication sign > "×", compare that to lowercase letter 'x': ×x×x > 19) .: · ÷ - middle dot and division sign > 20) ]: a combining tilde - example g with a tilde: g then AltGr+] = g̃ > historically, Philippine languages puts a tilde above the letter g. Read: > http://laibcoms.com/the-history-of-mr-nang-and-ms-ng Educators, > historists, linguists may need this ability. > > > So far, I'm cool with this version (v2). I'm looking for feedbacks > specially if there are experts out there or if there is a "committee" of > sorts that handles this type of "National" things (DOST?) If not, then it > is up to us to decide on which format the first "Philippines National > Keyboard Layout" will take form. > > Feel free to pass this to the rest of the Philippine Linux community and > any other lists that might be interested in this project. If the feedback > is good, then I'll start creating a Windows7 version, then we can start > spreading this new layout and submit to X.org too. > > Thank you very much. > > > > -- > ubuntu-ph mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ph > >
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