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The German keyboard is under development. It is a regular German layout but provides more than the usual accented characters to better accomodate other German-speaking countries (hence the name: D - Germany, A - Austria, CH - Switzerland). |
The German keyboard is under development. It is a regular German layout but provides more than the usual accented characters to better accomodate other German-speaking countries (hence the name: D - Germany, A - Austria, CH - Switzerland). |
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See the current layout at http://wiki.olpc-deutschland.de/ |
See the current layout at http://wiki.olpc-deutschland.de/wiki/Organisation/beirat/hardware |
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==OLPC section of the XKB symbol file== |
==OLPC section of the XKB symbol file== |
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Latest revision as of 13:35, 6 October 2008
OLPC keyboard layouts
Instructions for setting up keyboard switching in Terminal are on the Customizing NAND images page. On bilingual XOs, the multiplication/division key is replaced with a keyboard switching key.
Changing the language of the keyboard is independent of changing the language currently displayed. The language currently displayed can be changed by using the Language section of the Sugar Control Panel.
Membrane keyboard layouts
English (US international); Spanish (Latin America); Portuguese (Brazilian); Amharic (Ethiopic); Arabic; Nigerian (Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba); French; Thai; Urdu; Cyrillic (Russian); Turkish; Nepali; Mongolian; Kazakh; Devanagari; Uzbek; Pashto; Dari; Armenian; Khmer; Pulaar; Italian; Kreyòl; German; Chinese (Simplified); OLPC AZERTY
Non-membrane keyboard layouts
Starting with the XO-1.5 HS ("High School") edition, the XO laptop has a traditional (non-membrane) keyboard available as an option: English (US International); Spanish (Latin America);
Blank Keyboard Artwork
Artwork defining the inner dimensions of the membrane keyboard is available here: keyboard-blank.svg
German (D-A-CH) Keyboard
The German keyboard is under development. It is a regular German layout but provides more than the usual accented characters to better accomodate other German-speaking countries (hence the name: D - Germany, A - Austria, CH - Switzerland).
See the current layout at http://wiki.olpc-deutschland.de/wiki/Organisation/beirat/hardware
OLPC section of the XKB symbol file
The OLPC section of xkb/symbols/de can be found here. Below are the aggregate X Window System definitions for the OLPC German (D-A-CH) keyboard.
TODO