Thanks Andrew. Apparently there are two or three levels to this issue from your email: the layout (about which more in reply to Ibrahima Sarr), the technical...
Hi Ibrahima, welcome to the group and thanks for the input. Let me respond to the keyboard part now, because I think this is something OLPC is hoping for more...
Since OLPC have limited themselves to xkb ... My only concern is that the updated layout relies heavily on combining diacritics. This in itself isn't a problem...
Andrew Cunningham
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Nov 4, 2007 11:57 pm
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Hello again, I did not know about OLPC! great idea indeed. But I still believe keyboard will always be an issue since this is Africa! Standardisation is not...
Ibraahiima SAAR
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Nov 4, 2007 11:57 pm
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... We are not limiting our selves to xkb, but where it is sufficient for our needs, it is certainly a simple and compatible way to go... That said, regardless...
Walter Bender
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Nov 5, 2007 12:17 am
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Dear all, Some quick thoughts. 1) Re "standards," perhaps this term is being heard in different ways. In general standards may facilitate diversity, by...
Hi everybody, I think it is definitely a problem to "regionalize" keyboards as this is again an attempt at simplification. But as far as Africa is concerned, ...
Ibraahiima SAAR
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Nov 5, 2007 9:46 pm
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I think we all agree that we want to not simplify to the point of eliminating diversity or inherent complexity. However, there are only a finite number of keys...
Walter Bender
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Nov 5, 2007 9:46 pm
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Using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, I made a keyboard based on the French standard keyboard that allows us to type in a couple of dozen languages where...
David Rowe
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Nov 11, 2007 7:08 pm
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Is there any study of letter frequencies in the various languages in the region? This could help inform us as well. -walter ... -- Walter Bender One Laptop per...
Walter Bender
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Nov 11, 2007 7:10 pm
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Hi David, Walter, all, Aside from the summary based mainly on Hartell's (1993) data that I already gave a pointer to -...
FYI. This call for participation may be of interest to some. Its focus is Asian languages, but contributions on "under-resourced languages" from other regions...
FYI. This call for participation may be of interest to some. Its focus is Asian languages, but contributions on "under-resourced languages" from other regions...
Hi Don ... This keyboard solution (along with the Charis SIL fonts which correctly render the combining diacritics in Word 2003) is used on Windows XP machines...
David Rowe
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Nov 19, 2007 4:14 pm
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Thanks, Dave, This is helpful. It leads one to believe that multilingual keyboard solutions based on QWERTY or AZERTY may have to be subregional. It seems...
One further consideration on keyboard design, especially in the OLPC context, might be how easily one could transition to the keyboard in general use in the...
David Rowe
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Nov 20, 2007 1:54 pm
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Hi David, all, A few quick thoughts and a follow up or two on my previous (which I reappend below; apologies for that - normally I wouldn't do this, but it...
Bonjour chers abonnés à la liste A12n-entraide, C'est avec tristesse que je vous informe de la fermeture de cette liste. La liste A12n-entraide a été...
FYI from Marketwire at http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=796745&k=lancor (also on KONYIN Multilingual Keyboard list support@... ). Don SOURCE:...
It would be great if some Africans working on African languages could be involved in this. It does not appear to be limited to EU citizens. It's important to...
I passed this item on for information only, and have no information on the details from either side (nor have I requested same). As an interested observer,...
FYI, a newsletter from the African Language Technology site, a site launched earlier this year (per announcement on this list in January) which is compiling...
There has been a bit of discussion on the Unicode list during the past week about the proposal to include Vai in Unicode. I don't have any info on the progress...
The Kamusi Project Living Online Swahili Dictionary recently made this announcement: The Kamusi Project Presents: Code Africa We need your help to hack...
... Yes, the Vai encoding is finalised for inclusion in Unicode 5.1, the official release date of which is 31 March 2008. John Hudson ...
John Hudson
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Dec 8, 2007 4:54 am
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It turns out that this story was covered extensively in the news. For anyone who is interested, I made a list of some articles and blog entries discussing it....
Four and a half years ago, in June 2003, I set up this list - A12n-forum - as a sister list to A12n-collaboration and to several other specialized forums on...
I am in the process of revising the A12n e-mail lists hosted on Bisharat.net. A12n-forum and A12n-entraide have been closed. Members of A12n-forum who were not...
I'd like to bring up two possible elements of a strategy for multilingual keyboard layout standards. These have been brought up previously but not together in...
