OLPC Urdu Keyboard

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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

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Urdu keyboard layout

XKB KEY	HID	key	unmodified	shift	alt gr	alt gr shift	ctrl	fn	comment
	0x38	110	esc					HK_01
	0x79	140						HK_00	search
	0x3A	112	XK_ViewMesh						F1, analog 1
	0x77	141						HK_02	analog 2
	0x3B	113	XK_ViewFriends						F2, analog 3
	0x76	142						HK_07	analog 4
	0x3C	114	XK_ViewHome						F3, analog 5
	0x75	143						HK_08	analog 6
	0x3D	115	XK_ViewActivity						F4, analog 7
	0x3E	116							F5, analog 8
	0x74	144						HK_09	analog 9
	0x3F	117							F6, analog 10
	0x73	145						HK_10	analog 11
	0x40	118							F7, analog 12
	0x72	146						HK_11	analog 13
	0x41	119							F8, analog 14
	0x42	120							F9, analog 15
	0x71	147						HK_12	analog 16
	0x43	121							F10, analog 17
	0x70	148						HK_13	analog 18
	0x44	122							F11, analog 19
	0x6F	149						HK_14	analog 20
	0x45	123							F12, analog 21
	0x6E	150						HK_05	bulletin board
	0x5D	129	XK_Menu					HK_06	frame
key <TLDE>	0x01	1	grave	asciitilde	0x100064d	0x100064b
key <AE01>	0x1E	2	1	exclam	0x10006F1	0x1000021
key <AE02>	0x1F	3	2	at	0x10006F2	0x1000600	C-@
key <AE03>	0x20	4	3	numbersign	0x10006F3	0x100002f
key <AE04>	0x21	5	4	dollar	0x10006F4	0x1000626
key <AE05>	0x22	6	5	percent	0x10006F5	0x100060F
key <AE06>	0x23	7	6	asciicircum	0x10006F6	0x1000610	C-^
key <AE07>	0x24	8	7	ampersand	0x10006F7	0x1000654
key <AE08>	0x25	9	8	asterisk	0x10006F8	0x100064c
key <AE09>	0x26	10	9	parenleft	0x10006F9	0x1000029
key <AE10>	0x27	11	0	parenright	0x10006F0	0x1000028
key <AE11>	0x2D	12	minus	underscore	0x1000623	0x1000651	C-_
key <AE12>	0x2E	13	equal	plus	0x1000624	0x1000622
key <BKSP>	0x2A	15	backspace					delete
key <TAB>	0x2B	16	tab	back tab
key <AD01>	0x14	17	q	Q	0x1000642	0x10006E1	C-Q
key <AD02>	0x1A	18	w	W	0x1000648	0x100FDFA	C-W
key <AD03>	0x08	19	e	E	0x1000639	0x1000611	C-E
key <AD04>	0x15	20	r	R	0x1000631	0x1000691	C-R
key <AD05>	0x17	21	t	T	0x100062a	0x1000679	C-T
key <AD06>	0x1C	22	y	Y	0x10006d2	0x1000601	C-Y
key <AD07>	0x18	23	u	U	0x1000621	0x100060c	C-U
key <AD08>	0x0C	24	i	I	0x10006cc	0x1000670	C-I
key <AD09>	0x12	25	o	O	0x10006c1	0x10006c3	C-O
key <AD10>	0x13	26	p	P	0x100067e	0x100064f	C-P
key <AD11>	0x2F	27	[	{	0x100005B	0x1000603	C-[
key <AD12>	0x30	28	]	}	0x100005D	0x100060E	C-]
key <CAPS>	0xE0	58	control
key <AC01>	0x04	31	a	A	0x1000627	0x1000653	C-A
key <AC02>	0x16	32	s	S	0x1000633	0x1000635	C-S
key <AC03>	0x07	33	d	D	0x100062f	0x1000688	C-D
key <AC04>	0x09	34	f	F	0x1000641	0x1000656	C-F
key <AC05>	0x0A	35	g	G	0x10006af	0x100063a	C-G
key <AC06>	0x0B	36	h	H	0x10006be	0x100062d	C-H
key <AC07>	0x0D	37	j	J	0x100062c	0x1000636	C-J
key <AC08>	0x0E	38	k	K	0x10006a9	0x100062e	C-K
key <AC09>	0x0F	39	l	L	0x1000644	0x1000612	C-L
key <AC10>	0x33	40	semicolon	colon	0x100061b	0x100003a
key <AC11>	0x34	41	apostrophe	quotedbl	0x1000027	0x1000022
key <BKSL>	0x31	42	backslash	bar	0x1000602	0x1000614	C-\
key <RTRN>	0x28	43	enter					insert
key <LFSH>	0xE1	44	left shift
key <AB01>	0x1D	46	z	Z			C-Z
key <AB02>	0x1B	47	x	X			C-X
key <AB03>	0x06	48	c	C	ccedilla	Ccedilla	C-C
key <AB04>	0x19	49	v	V			C-V
key <AB05>	0x05	50	b	B			C-B
key <AB06>	0x11	51	n	N	ntilde	Ntilde	C-N
key <AB07>	0x10	52	m	M	mu	mu	C-M
key <AB08>	0x36	53	comma	less	guillemontleft	guillemontleft
key <AB09>	0x37	54	period	greater	guillemontright	guillemontright
key <AB10>	0x38	55	slash	question	questiondown	questiondown
key <RTSH>	0xE5	57	right shift
key <UP>	0x52	83	up arrow					page up
key <LSGT>	0x73	56	multiply	division	ISO_Next_Group	ISO_Prev_Group		HK_04
	0xE1	59	fn
	0x5B	127	XK_Grab_L
key <LALT>	0xE2	60	alt
key <SPCE>	0x2C	61	space					XK_ViewSource
key <RALT>	0xE6	62	alt gr
	0x5C	128	XK_Grab_R					HK_03
key <LEFT>	0x50	79	left arrow					home
key <DOWN>	0x51	84	down arrow					page down
key <RGHT>	0x4F	89	right arrow					end

// based on a keyboard map from an 'xkb/symbols/ur' file
// Contact: Nadir Durrani
// E-mail : aquadurrani@hotmail.com
// $XFree86$
// olpc mods

partial default alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {
   name[Group1]= "Arabic";

// NOTES:
//
// there is also combined shadda diacritis in AltGr position of simple
// diacritics fatha, fathatan, damma, dammatan, kasra and kasratan
// should a third state be added to Group2 ?
//

   key <TLDE> {  [     0x100064d  ,       0x100064b      ]     };
   key <AE01> {  [     0x10006F1  ,       0x1000021      ]     };
   key <AE02> {  [     0x10006F2  ,       0x1000003      ]     };
   key <AE03> {  [     0x10006F3  ,       0x100002f      ]     };
   key <AE04> {  [     0x10006F4  ,       0x1000626      ]     };
   key <AE05> {  [     0x10006F5  ,       0x1000003      ]     };
   key <AE06> {  [     0x10006F6  ,       0x10006d6      ]     };
   key <AE07> {  [     0x10006F7  ,       0x1000654      ]     };
   key <AE08> {  [     0x10006F8  ,       0x100064c      ]     };
   key <AE09> {  [     0x10006F9  ,       0x1000029      ]     };
   key <AE10> {  [     0x10006F0  ,       0x1000028      ]     };
   key <AE11> {  [     0x1000623  ,       0x1000651      ]     };
   key <AE12> {  [     0x1000624  ,       0x1000622      ]     };
   key <AD01> {  [     0x1000642  ,       0x1000652      ]     };
   key <AD02> {  [     0x1000648  ,       0x10000a3      ]     };
   key <AD03> {  [     0x1000639  ,       0x10000a5      ]     };
   key <AD04> {  [     0x1000631  ,       0x1000691      ]     };
   key <AD05> {  [     0x100062a  ,       0x1000679      ]     };
   key <AD06> {  [     0x10006d2  ,       0x1000601      ]     };
   key <AD07> {  [     0x1000621  ,       0x100060c      ]     };
   key <AD08> {  [     0x10006cc  ,       0x1000670      ]     };
   key <AD09> {  [     0x10006c1  ,       0x10006c3      ]     };
   key <AD10> {  [     0x100067e  ,       0x100064f      ]     };
   key <AD11> {  [     0x100005d  ,       0x1000670      ]     };
   key <AD12> {  [     0x100005b  ,       0x1000670      ]     };

   key <AC01> {  [     0x1000627  ,       0x1000653      ]     };
   key <AC02> {  [     0x1000633  ,       0x1000635      ]     };
   key <AC03> {  [     0x100062f  ,       0x1000688      ]     };
   key <AC04> {  [     0x1000641  ,       0x1000003      ]     };
   key <AC05> {  [     0x10006af  ,       0x100063a      ]     };
   key <AC06> {  [     0x10006be  ,       0x100062d      ]     };
   key <AC07> {  [     0x100062c  ,       0x1000636      ]     };
   key <AC08> {  [     0x10006a9  ,       0x100062e      ]     };
   key <AC09> {  [     0x1000644  ,       0x1000613      ]     };
   key <AC10> {  [     0x100061b  ,       0x100003a      ]     };
   key <AC11> {  [     0x1000670  ,       0x1000022       ]     };
   key <BKSL> {  [     0x100060e ,        0x1000614      ]     };

   key <LSGT> {  [            bar ,       brokenbar      ]     };
   key <AB01> {  [     0x1000632  ,       0x1000630      ]     };
   key <AB02> {  [     0x1000634  ,       0x1000698      ]     };
   key <AB03> {  [     0x1000686  ,       0x100062b      ]     };
   key <AB04> {  [     0x1000637  ,       0x1000638      ]     };
   key <AB05> {  [     0x1000628  ,       0x1000612      ]     };
   key <AB06> {  [     0x1000646  ,       0x10006ba      ]     };
   key <AB07> {  [     0x1000645  ,       0x1000003      ]     };
   key <AB08> {  [     0x100060c  ,       0x1000650      ]     };
   key <AB09> {  [     0x10006d4  ,       0x100064e      ]     };
   key <AB10> {  [     0x1000003  ,       0x100061f      ]     };

   // End alphanumeric section
};

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "qwerty" {
   include "pc/ar(basic)"
};

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "azerty" {
   include "pc/ar(basic)"

   // the north african arabic keyboard differs from the middle east one
   // by the numeric row; it follows French keyboard style
   //
   // PROBLEM: some chars are inaccessible: ! @ # $ % ^ *
   // should they go elsewhere? replace " ' that are now in double ?
   // also, dead_circumflex and dead_diaeresis from French keyboard
   // as well as ugrave are missing, which questions the utility of the
   // other accentuated latin letters. Maybe this is useful only with
   // a French keyboard in Group1 ? Then, shouldn't Group1 be filled ?

   key <AE01> {  [       ampersand,               1      ]       };
   key <AE02> {  [          eacute,               2      ]       };
   key <AE03> {  [        quotedbl,               3      ]       };
   key <AE04> {  [      apostrophe,               4      ]       };
   key <AE05> {  [       parenleft,               5      ]       };
   key <AE06> {  [           minus,               6      ]       };
   key <AE07> {  [          egrave,               7      ]       };
   key <AE08> {  [      underscore,               8      ]       };
   key <AE09> {  [        ccedilla,               9      ]       };
   key <AE10> {  [          agrave,               0      ]       };
   key <AE11> {  [      parenright,          degree      ]       };
};


partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "digits" {
   include "pc/ar(basic)"

   // use arabic script digits

   key <AE01> {  [       0x1000661,          exclam      ]       };
   key <AE02> {  [       0x1000662,              at      ]       };
   key <AE03> {  [       0x1000663,      numbersign      ]       };
   key <AE04> {  [       0x1000664,          dollar      ]       };
   key <AE05> {  [       0x1000665,         percent      ]       };
   key <AE06> {  [       0x1000666,     asciicircum      ]       };
   key <AE07> {  [       0x1000667,       ampersand      ]       };
   key <AE08> {  [       0x1000668,        asterisk      ]       };
   key <AE09> {  [       0x1000669,       parenleft      ]       };
   key <AE10> {  [       0x1000660,      parenright      ]       };
};

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "qwerty_digits" {
   include "pc/ar(digits)"
};

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "azerty_digits" {
   include "pc/ar(azerty)"
      key <AE01> {  [       ampersand,       0x1000661      ]       };
   key <AE02> {  [          eacute,       0x1000662      ]       };
   key <AE03> {  [        quotedbl,       0x1000663      ]       };
   key <AE04> {  [      apostrophe,       0x1000664      ]       };
   key <AE05> {  [       parenleft,       0x1000665      ]       };
   key <AE06> {  [           minus,       0x1000666      ]       };
   key <AE07> {  [          egrave,       0x1000667      ]       };
   key <AE08> {  [      underscore,       0x1000668      ]       };
   key <AE09> {  [        ccedilla,       0x1000669      ]       };
   key <AE10> {  [          agrave,       0x1000660      ]       };
};

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "olpc" {
  name[Group1]= "Arabic OLPC-Urdu"; 

   include "ur(basic)"

   key <AE02> {  [     0x10006F2  ,       0x1000600      ]     };
   key <AE05> {  [     0x10006F5  ,       0x100060F      ]     };
   key <AE06> {  [     0x10006F6  ,       0x1000610      ]     };
 
   key <AD01> {  [     0x1000642  ,       0x10006E1      ]     };
   key <AD02> {  [     0x1000648  ,       0x100FDFA      ]     };
   key <AD03> {  [     0x1000639  ,       0x1000611      ]     };
   // [] swapped due to keyboard misprint
   key <AD11> {  [     0x100005B  ,       0x1000603      ]     };
   key <AD12> {  [     0x100005D  ,       0x100060E      ]     };

   key <AC04> {  [     0x1000641  ,       0x1000656      ]     };
   key <AC09> {  [     0x1000644  ,       0x1000612      ]     };
   key <AC11> {  [     0x1000027  ,       0x1000022      ]     };
   key <BKSL> {  [     0x1000602  ,       0x1000614      ]     };

   key <AB05> {  [     0x1000628  ,       0x1000613      ]     };
   key <AB07> {  [     0x1000645  ,       0x1000658      ]     };
   key <AB10> {  [     0x1000615  ,       0x100061F      ]     };

   //language key
   key <AB11> {  [ISO_Next_Group  ,  ISO_Prev_Group      ]     };
};

Pakistan	URDU
row	key	unmodified	shift	alt gr	alt gr shift	ctrl	ctrl shift	fn	comment
1 (top)	131	esc						HK_01	esc	view src
	130	???						HK_00	camera	microphone
	112	F1							view mesh	analog 1
	132							HK_02		analog 2
	113	F2							view friends	analog 3
	137							HK_07		analog 4
	114	F3							view home	analog 5
	138							HK_08		analog 6
	115	F4							view activity	analog 7
	120	F5								analog 8
	139							HK_09		analog 9
	121	F6								analog 10
	140							HK_10		analog 11
	122	F7								analog 12
	141							HK_11		analog 13
	123	F8								analog 14
	116	F9							volume down	analog 15
	142							HK_12		analog 16
	117	F10								analog 17
	143							HK_13		analog 18
	118	F11								analog 19
	144							HK_14		analog 20
	119	F12							volume up	analog 21
	135	???						HK_05	chat/corkboard
	136	???						HK_06	frame
2	1	`	~
	2	1	!	1	!			F1
	3	2	@	2	@		C-@	F2
	4	3	#	3	#			F3
	5	4	$	4	$			F4
	6	5	%	5	%			F5	U+20AC (EURO)
	7	6	^	6	£		C-^	F6
	8	7	&	7	€			F7
	9	8	*	8	*			F8
	10	9	(	9	(			F9
	11	0	)	0	)			F10
	12	ـ	_	ـ	_		C-_	F11	U+0640 (TATWEEL)
	13	=	+	=	+			F12
3	15	backspace							backspace/delete (U+007F)
	16	tab	back tab			C-tab	C-tab
	17	q	Q	ط	ظ	C-Q	C-Q		U+0637 (TAH)	U+0638 (ZAH)
	18	w	W	ص	ض	C-W	C-W		U+0635 (SAD)	U+0636 (DAD)
	19	e	E	ھ	ذ	C-E	C-E		U+06BE (HEH DOACHASHMEE)	U+0630 (THAL)
	20	r	R	د	ڈ	C-R	C-R		U+062F (DAL)	U+0688 (DDAL)
	21	t	T	ٹ	ث	C-T	C-T		U+0679 (TTEH)	U+062B (THET)
	22	y	Y	پ	ّ	C-Y	C-Y		U+067E (PEH)	U+0651 (SHADDA)
	23	u	U	ت	ۃ	C-U	C-U		U+062A (TEH )	U+06C3 (THE MARBUTA GOAL)
	24	i	I	ب	ِ	C-I	C-I		U+0628 (BEH)	U+FE7A (KASRA)
	25	o	O	ج	چ	C-O	C-O		U+062C (JEEM)	U+0686 (TCHEH)
	26	p	P	ح	خ	C-P	C-P		U+062D (HAH)	U+062E (KHAH)
	27	[	{	]	}	C-]	C-]
	28	]	}	[	{	C-[	C-[
4	58	control
	31	a	A	م	ژ	C-A	C-A		U+0645 (MEEM)	U+0698 (JEH)
	32	s	S	و	ز	C-S	C-S		U+0648 (WAW)	U+0632 (ZAIN)
	33	d	D	ر	ڑ	C-D	C-D		U+0631 (REH)	U+0691 (RREH)
	34	f	F	ن	ں	C-F	C-F		U+0646 (NOON)	U+06BA (NOON GHUNNA)
	35	g	G	ل	ۂ	C-G	C-G		U+0644 (LAM)	U+06C2 (HEH GOAL w/ HAMZA ABOVE)
	36	h	H	ه	ء	C-H	C-H		U+06C1 (HEH GOAL)	U+0621 (HAMZA)
	37	j	J	ا	آ	C-J	C-J		U+0627 (ALEF)	U+FE81 (ALEF w/ MADDA Above)
	38	k	K	ک	گ	C-K	C-K		U+06A9 (KEHEH)	U+06AF (GAF)
	39	l	L	ﻯ	ي	C-L	C-L		U+0649 (ALEF MAKSURA)	U+064A (YEH)
	40	;	:	؛	:				U+061B (ARABIC SEMICOLON)
	41	'	“	'	“
	29	\				C-\	C-\
	43	enter
5	44	left shift
	46	z	Z	ق	ZWJ	C-Z	C-Z		U+0642 (QAF)	U+200D (Zero width Joiner)
	47	x	X	ف	ZWNJ	C-X	C-X		U+0641 (FEH)	U+200C (Zero width non-Joiner)
	48	c	C	ے	ۓ	C-C	C-C		U+06D2 (YEH BARREE)	U+06D3 (YEH BARREE w/ HAMZA ABOVE)
	49	v	V	س	LRM	C-V	C-V		U+0634 (SHEEN)	U+200E (Left-to-Right Mark)
	50	b	B	ش	ﺅ	C-B	C-B		U+0633 (SEEN)	U+0624 (WAW W/ HAMZA ABOVE)
	51	n	N	غ	ئ	C-N	C-N		U+063A (GHAIN)	U+0626 (YEH w/ HAMZA Above)
	52	m	M	ع	RLM	C-M	C-M		U+0639(AIN)	U+200F (Right-to-Left Mark)
	53	,	>	،	>				U+060C (ARABIC COMMA)
	54	.	<	۔	<				U+06D4 (FULL STOP)
	55	/	?	/	؟					U+061F (Arabic Question Mark)
	57	right shift						insert
	83	up arrow						page up
	134	AB/ﺃب						HK_04	language key
6 (bottom)	59	fn
	unassigned	left grab
	60	alt
	61	space						unassigned	keyboard light
	62	alt gr
	133	right grab						HK_03
	79	left arrow						home
	84	down arrow						page down
	89	right arrow						end