OLPC Nigeria Keyboard

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Contents 1 OLPC keyboard layouts 2 Nigerian keyboard 3 OLPC section of the XKB symbol file 4 Compose character additions

[edit] OLPC keyboard layouts

English (US international); Spanish (Latin America); Portuguese (Brazilian); Amharic (Ethiopic); Arabic; Nigerian (Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba); French (Rwanda); Thai; Urdu; Cyrillic (Russian); Turkish; Nepali; Mongolian; Kazakh; Devanagari; Uzbek; Pashto; Dari; Armenian; Khmer; Pulaar; Italian; Kreyòl; German

Instructions for setting up keyboard switching in Terminal are on the Customizing NAND images page. On bilingual XOs, the times/divide key is replaced with a keyboard switching key.

[edit] Nigerian keyboard

[edit] OLPC section of the XKB symbol file

To use the XKB ng (Nigerian) layout, you may need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

XkbLayout "ng"
XkbVariant "olpc"

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "olpc" {
   name[Group1]= "Nigeria - OLPC West Africa";

   include "us(basic)"
   // OLPC Nigeria keyboard layout
   // See: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Nigeria-B3.png
   // combined support for Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba
   // Contact Walter Bender (walter@laptop.org)

    key <TLDE> {	[     grave,	asciitilde	dead_grave,	dead_grave	]	};
    key <AE01> {	[	  1,	exclam 		exclamdown,	exclamdown	]	};
    key <AE02> {	[	  2,	at		dead_acute,	dead_acute	]	};
    key <AE03> {	[	  3,	numbersign,	dead_cedilla,	dead_cedilla	]	};
    key <AE04> {	[	  4,	dollar		dead_tilde,	dead_tilde	]	};
    key <AE05> {	[	  5,	percent,	dead_caron,	dead_caron	]	};
    key <AE06> {	[	  6,	asciicircum,	dead_circumflex,dead_circumflex	]	};
    key <AE07> {	[	  7,	ampersand,	dead_belowdot,	dead_belowdot	]	};
    key <AE08> {	[	  8,	asterisk, 	dead_abovedot,	dead_abovedot	]	};
    key <AE09> {	[	  9,	parenleft,	dead_belowverticalline,	dead_belowverticalline	]	}; 
    key <AE10> {	[	  0,	parenright,	dead_diaeresis,	dead_diaeresis	]	};
    key <AE11> {	[     minus,	underscore,	dead_macron,	dead_macron	]	};
    key <AE12> {	[     equal,	plus,		guillemotleft,	guillemotright	]	};

    key <AD01> {	[	  q,	Q, 		0x1001EB9,	0x1001EB8	]	}; // E with dot below
    key <AD02> {	[	  w,	W,		udiaeresis,	Udiaeresis	]	};
    key <AD03> {	[	  e,	E,		EuroSign,	EuroSign	]	};
    key <AD04> {	[	  r,	R,		0x10020A6,	0x10020A6 	]	}; // Naira Sign
    key <AD05> {	[	  t,	T,		0x1001EE5,	0x1001EE4	]	}; // U with dot below
    key <AD06> {	[	  y,	Y,		0x1001ECB,	0x1001ECA	]	}; // I with dot below
    key <AD11> {	[ bracketleft,	braceleft,	0x10001B4,	0x10001B3	]	}; // Y with hook
    key <AD12> {	[ bracketright,	braceright,	0x10001E7,	0x10001E6	]	}; // G with caron

    key <AC02> {	[	  s,	S,		sterling,	sterling	]	};
    key <AC05> {	[	  g,	G,		0x1000257,	0x100018A	]	}; // D with hook
    key <AC06> {	[	  h,	H,		0x1000253,	0x1000181	]	}; // B with hook
    key <AC07> {	[	  j,	J,		0x1000199,	0x1000198	]	}; // K with hook
    key <AC10> {	[ semicolon,	colon,		0x1000131,	I		]	}; // Dotless I
    key <AC11> {	[apostrophe,	quotedbl,	0x10001DD,	0x100018E	]	}; // Reversed E
    key <BKSL> {	[ backslash,    bar,		scedilla,	Scedilla	]	};

    key <AB01> {	[	  z,	Z,		0x1000272,	0x100019D	]	}; // N with left hook
    key <AB02> {	[	  x,	X,		0x1001ECD,	0x1001ECC	]	}; // O with dot below
    key <AB04> {	[	  v,	V,		0x1001E63,	0x1001E62	]	}; // S with dot below
    key <AB06> {	[	  n,	N,		0x1001E45,	0x1001E44	]	}; // N with dot above
    key <AB07> {	[	  m,	M,		ntilde,		Ntilde		]	};
    key <AB09> {	[    period,	greater,	ccedilla,	Ccedilla	]	};
    key <AB10> {	[     slash,	question,	questiondown,	questiondown	]	};
    key <I219> {	[  multiply,	division,	ISO_Next_Group,	ISO_Prev_Group	]	};

   include "level3(ralt_switch)"
};

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "olpc2" {
   include "us(olpc)"
   key <I219>  { [ ISO_Next_Group, ISO_Prev_Group ] };
};

[edit] Compose character additions

# Below verticalline combinations
<dead_belowverticalline> <B>        :   "B̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <b>        :   "b̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <D>        :   "D̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <d>        :   "d̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <H>        :   "H̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <h>        :   "h̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <K>        :   "K̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <k>        :   "k̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <L>        :   "L̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <l>        :   "l̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <M>        :   "M̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <m>        :   "m̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <N>        :   "N̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <n>        :   "n̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <R>        :   "R̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <r>        :   "r̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <S>        :   "S̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <s>        :   "s̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <V>        :   "V̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <v>        :   "v̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <W>        :   "W̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <w>        :   "w̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <Z>        :   "Z̩"
<dead_belowverticalline> <z>        :   "z̩"