Ethiopian Setup

Development is being tracked here: http://www.codewiz.org/wiki/EthiopianLocale

• Update your OS image if it's older than joyride-234

• Open the Terminal activity

• Set the environment variables in /home/olpc/.i18n as follows:

{{{ LANG=am_ET.UTF-8 XKB_LAYOUT="us(olpc2),et" }}}

• Reboot or restart X

You can change the keyboard settings on the fly by typing:

setxkbmap -model olpc 'us(olpc2),et'

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• You can switch between IM in the Write activity through the RMB context menu (no you can't, as the RMB context menu is disabled these days - uwog), although the Amharic IM only appears to work the the "us" XKB keyboard layout.

• You can toggle between the us and the et layouts by hitting the group switch key, which is mapped to the rightmost key below enter (labeled multiply/divide on US keyboards).