OLPC Nepali 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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Nepali keyboard layout

Nepal	Nepali
row	key	unmodified	shift	alt gr	alt gr shift	ctrl	ctrl shift	fn	comment
1 (top)	131	esc						HK_01	esc
	130	???						HK_00	journal search
	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	`	~	ऽ						SIGN AVAGRAHA, SIGN NUKTA
	2	1	!	१	!					Nepali Digit ONE
	3	2	@	२	@		C-@			Digit TWO
	4	3	#	३	#					Digit THREE
	5	4	$	४	$					Digit FOUR
	6	5	%	५	%					Digit FIVE
	7	6	^	६	£		C-^			Digit SIX
	8	7	&	७	€					Digit SEVEN
	9	8	*	८	*					Digit EIGHT
	10	9	(	९	(					Digit NINE
	11	0	)	०	)					Digit ZERO
	12	ـ	_	ـ	_		C-_			STRESS SIGN ANUDATTA
	13	=	+	ॐ	ः				AUM, VISHARGA
3	15	backspace							backspace/delete (U+007F)
	16	tab	back tab			C-tab	C-tab
	17	q	Q	ज	झ	C-Q	C-Q			JA, JHA
	18	w	W	ग	घ	C-W	C-W			GA, GHA
	19	e	E	य	ञ	C-E	C-E			YA, YNA
	20	r	R	स	श	C-R	C-R			SA, SHA
	21	t	T	ए	ऐ	C-T	C-T			E, EI
	22	y	Y	छ	च	C-Y	C-Y			CHHA, CHA
	23	u	U	प	फ	C-U	C-U			PA, PHA
	24	i	I	े	ै	C-I	C-I			VOWEL SIGN E, VOWEL SIGN EI
	25	o	O	ाे	ाै	C-O	C-O			VOWEL SIGN O, VOWEL SIGN OI
	26	p	P	त	थ	C-P	C-P			TA, THA
	27	[	{	उ	ऊ	C-]	C-]			HRSHWA U, DIRGHA U (OO)
	28	]	}	ई	इ	C-[	C-[			HRSHWA I, DIRGHA I(EE)
4	58	control
	31	a	A	म	ं	C-A	C-A			MA, SIGN ANUSWOR
	32	s	S	ि	ी	C-S	C-S			VOWEL SIGN HRSHWA I, VOWEL SIGN DIRGHA I
	33	d	D	न	ण	C-D	C-D			NA, NNA
	34	f	F	्	ड	C-F	C-F			SIGN HALANTA, DDA
	35	g	G	ट	ठ	C-G	C-G			TTA, TTHA
	36	h	H	द	ध	C-H	C-H			DA, DHA
	37	j	J	ा	ँ	C-J	C-J			SIGN AA, SIGN CHANDRAVINDU
	38	k	K	र	ृ	C-K	C-K			RA, SIGN RRI
	39	l	L	क	ख	C-L	C-L			KA, KHA
	40	;	:	؛	:
	41	'	“	'	“
	29	\				C-\	C-\
	43	enter
5	44	left shift
	46	z	Z	ष	ऋ	C-Z	C-Z			SSA, RRI
	47	x	X	ब	भ	C-X	C-X			BA, BHA
	48	c	C	ु	ू	C-C	C-C			VOWEL SIGN HRSHWA U, VOWEL SIGN DIRGHA U
	49	v	V	ह	ढ	C-V	C-V			HA, DDHA
	50	b	B	ओ	औ	C-B	C-B			O, OU
	51	n	N	अ	आ	C-N	C-N			A, AA
	52	m	M	ल	ङ	C-M	C-M			LA, NGA
	53	,	<	,	व					ALPA VIRAM, WA
	54	.	>	।	.					PURNA VIRAM
	55	/	?	/	?
	57	right shift						insert
	83	up arrow						page up
	134	AB/कख						HK_04	language key
6 (bottom)	59	fn
	unassigned	left grab
	60	alt
	61	space								view source
	62	alt gr
	133	right grab						HK_03
	79	left arrow						home
	84	down arrow						page down
	89	right arrow						end

OLPC section of the XKB symbol file

To use the XKB Nepali layout along with US layout, you may need to edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This will make "us" the first and "np" a second layout:

XkbLayout "us,np"
XkbVariant "olpc2,olpc"

// $XKeyboardConfig: xkbdesc/symbols/np,v 1.2 2006/10/03 22:33:37 svu Exp $

// based on a keyboard map from an 'xkb/symbols/dev' file
//
// $XFree86: xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/pc/dev,v 1.2 2002/11/22 04:03:28 dawes Exp $

partial default alphanumeric_keys 
xkb_symbols "basic" {

      name[Group1]= "Nepal";

// `,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,-,=

      key <TLDE> { [      0x100093D, 0x100093C 		]	}; // SIGN AVAGRAHA,़ SIGN NUKTA
      key <AE01> { [      0x1000967	 		]	}; // Nepali digit one
      key <AE02> { [      0x1000968			]	}; // Nepali digit two
      key <AE03> { [      0x1000969 	 		]	}; // Nepali digit three
      key <AE04> { [      0x100096A  	 		]	}; // Nepali digit four
      key <AE05> { [      0x100096B  	 		]	}; // Nepali digit five
      key <AE06> { [      0x100096C  	 		]	}; // Nepali digit six
      key <AE07> { [      0x100096D                     ]	}; // Nepali digit seven
      key <AE08> { [      0x100096e  	 		]	}; // Nepali digit eight
      key <AE09> { [      0x100096F	 		]	}; // Nepali digit nine
      key <AE10> { [      0x1000966, 0x1000970		]	}; // Nepali digit zero

// q,w,e,r,t,y,u,i,o,p,[,]

      key <AD01> { [      0x100091F,  0x1000920       	]	}; // TTA, TTHA
      key <AD02> { [      0x100094C,  0x1000914       	]	}; // VOWEL SIGN AU, AU
      key <AD03> { [      0x1000947,  0x1000948       	]	}; // VOWEL SIGN E, VOWEL SIGN AI
      key <AD04> { [      0x1000930,  0x1000943       	]	}; // RA, VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R
      key <AD05> { [      0x1000924,  0x1000925       	]	}; // TA, THA
      key <AD06> { [      0x100092F,  0x100091E 	]	}; // YA, YNA
      key <AD07> { [      0x1000941,  0x1000942 	]	}; // VOWEL SIGN HRSHWA U, VOWEL SIGN DIRGHA UU
      key <AD08> { [      0x100093F,  0x1000940 	]	}; // VOWEL SIGN HRSHWA I, VOWEL SIGN DIRGHA II
      key <AD09> { [      0x100094B,  0x1000913		]	}; // VOWEL SIGN O, O
      key <AD10> { [      0x100092A,  0x100092B 	]	}; // PA, PHA
      key <AD11> { [      0x1000907,  0x1000908		]	}; // HRSHWA I, DIRGHA II
      key <AD12> { [      0x100090F,  0x1000910		]	}; // E, EI

// a,s,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,;,',Backslash 
      key <AC01> { [      0x100093E,  0x1000906       	]	}; // SIGN AA, AA
      key <AC02> { [      0x1000938,  0x1000936       	]	}; // SA, SHA
      key <AC03> { [      0x1000926,  0x1000927       	]	}; // DA, DHA
      key <AC04> { [      0x1000909,  0x100090A       	]	}; // HRSHWA U, DIRGHA U (UU)
      key <AC05> { [      0x1000917,  0x1000918       	]	}; // GA, GHA
      key <AC06> { [      0x1000939,  0x1000905 	]	}; // HA, A
      key <AC07> { [      0x100091C,  0x100091D 	]	}; // JA, JHA
      key <AC08> { [      0x1000915,  0x1000916 	]	}; // KA, KHA
      key <AC09> { [      0x1000932,  0x1000933 	]	}; // LA, LLA
      key <AC10> { [      semicolon,  colon 		]	};
      key <AC11> { [      quoteright, quotedbl 		]	};
      key <BKSL> { [      0x1000950,  0x1000903 	]	}; // OM, SIGN VISARGA


// z,x,c,v,b,n,m,,,.,/ 
      key <AB01> { [      0x1000937,  0x100090B		]	}; // SSA, VOCALIC R (RRI)
      key <AB02> { [      0x1000921,  0x1000922		]	}; // DDA, DDHA
      key <AB03> { [      0x100091B,  0x100091A         ]       }; // CHHA, CHA
      key <AB04> { [      0x1000935,  0x1000901		]       }; // VA, SIGN CANDRABINDU
      key <AB05> { [      0x100092C,  0x100092D		]       }; // BA, BHA
      key <AB06> { [      0x1000928,  0x1000923         ]       }; // NA, NNA
      key <AB07> { [      0x100092E,  0x1000902         ]       }; // MA, SIGN ANUSVARA
      key <AB09> { [      0x1000964,  0x1000965		]       }; // DANDA, DOUBLE DANDA
      key <AB10> { [      0x100094D,  question		]       }; // VIRAMA (HALANTA?)
};

// missing: 0x1000919 // NGA
partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "olpc" {

// Contact: Walter Bender <walter@laptop.org>

  include "np"
      key <AE11> { [      0x1000952 			]	}; // STRESS SIGN ANUDATTA
      key <AE12> { [      0x1000950, 0x1000903 		]	}; // OM, SIGN VISARGA

      key <I219> { [ ISO_Next_Group, ISO_Prev_Group	]	};  //language key

};