OLPC Dari 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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Dari keyboard layout

OLPC section of the XKB symbol file

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

XkbLayout "us,af"
XkbVariant "olpc2,olpc-da"

// from xkb/symbols/af
partial alphanumeric_keys 
xkb_symbols "olpc-fa" {

   name[Group1]= "Afghanistan - Dari";

   key <TLDE> { [ 0x100200D, division, tilde ] }; // zero width joiner
   key <AE01> { [ 0x10006F1, exclam, grave ] }; // Arabic one
   key <AE02> { [ 0x10006F2, 0x100066C, at ] }; // Arabic two, Arabic thousands separator
   key <AE03> { [ 0x10006F3, 0x100066B, numbersign ] }; // Arabic three, Arabic decimal separator
   key <AE04> { [ 0x10006F4, 0x100060B, dollar ] }; // Arabic four, Afghani sign
   key <AE05> { [ 0x10006F5, 0x100066A, percent ] }; // Arabic five, Arabic percent sign
   key <AE06> { [ 0x10006F6, multiply, circumflex ] }; // Arabic six
   key <AE07> { [ 0x10006F7, 0x100060C, ampersand ] }; // Arabic seven, Arabic comma
   key <AE08> { [ 0x10006F8, asterisk, enfilledcircbullet ] }; // Arabic eight, 
   key <AE09> { [ 0x10006F9, parenright, 0x100200E ] }; // Arabic nine, left-to-right mark
   key <AE10> { [ 0x10006F0, parenleft, 0x100200F ] }; // Arabic zero, right-to-left mark
   key <AE11> { [ minus, 0x1000640, underscore ] }; // Arabic_tatweel
   key <AE12> { [ plus, equal ] };

   key <AD01> { [ 0x1000636, 0x1000652, degree ] }; // Arabic dad, Arabic sukun
   key <AD02> { [ 0x1000635, 0x100064C ] }; // Arabic sad, Arabic dammatan
   key <AD03> { [ 0x100062B, 0x100064D, eurosign ] }; // Arabic theh, Arabic kasratan
   key <AD04> { [ 0x1000642, 0x100064B, 0x100FD3E ] }; // Arabic qaf, Arabic fathatan, ornate left paren
   key <AD05> { [ 0x1000641, 0x100064F, 0x100FD3F ] }; // Arabic feh, Arabic damma, ornate right paren
   key <AD06> { [ 0x100063A, 0x1000650, 0x1000656 ] }; // Arabic ghain, Arabic kasra, Arabic subscript alef
   key <AD07> { [ 0x1000639, 0x100064E, 0x100e659 ] }; // Arabic ain, Arabic fatha, Arabic zwarakay
   key <AD08> { [ 0x1000647, 0x1000651, 0x1000655 ] }; // Arabic heh, Arabic shadda, Arabic hamza below
   key <AD09> { [ 0x100062E, bracketright, apostrophe ] }; // Arabic khah
   key <AD10> { [ 0x100062D, bracketleft, quotedbl ] }; // Arabic hah
   key <AD11> { [ 0x100062C, braceright, 0x1000681 ] }; // Arabic jeem, Arabic hah with hamza above
   key <AD12> { [ 0x1000686, braceleft, 0x1000685 ] }; // Arabic tcheh, Arabic hah with three dots above

   key <AC01> { [ 0x1000634, 0x1000624, 0x100069A ] }; // Arabic sheen, Arabic waw with hamza above, Arabic seen with dot below and dot above
   key <AC02> { [ 0x1000633, 0x1000626, 0x10006CD ] }; // Arabic seen, Arabic yeh with hamza above, Arabic yeh with tail
   key <AC03> { [ 0x10006CC, 0x100064A, 0x1000649 ] }; // Farsi yeh, Arabic yeh, Arabic alef maksura
   key <AC04> { [ 0x1000628, 0x1000625, 0x10006D0 ] }; // Arabic beh, Arabic alef with hamza below, Arabic e
   key <AC05> { [ 0x1000644, 0x1000623, 0x10006B7 ] }; // Arabic lam, Arabic hamza on alef, Arabic alef with hamza above
   key <AC06> { [ 0x1000627, 0x1000622, 0x1000671 ] }; // Arabic alef, Arabic madda on alef, Arabic alef wasla
   key <AC07> { [ 0x100062A, 0x1000629, 0x100067C ] }; // Arabic teh, Arabic teh marbuta, Arabic tteh
   key <AC08> { [ 0x1000646, guillemotright, 0x10006BC ] }; // Arabic noon, Arabic noon with ring
   key <AC09> { [ 0x1000645, guillemotleft, 0x10006BA ] }; // Arabic meem, Arabic noon ghunna
   key <AC10> { [ 0x10006A9, colon, semicolon ] }; // Arabic keheh, 
   key <AC11> { [ 0x10006AF, 0x100061B, 0x10006AB ] }; // Arabic gaf, Arabic semicolon, Arabic kaf with ring

   key <BKSL> { [ backslash, bar, question ] };
   key <SPCE> { [ space, 0x100200C, 0x10000A0 ] }; // zero width non-joiner, no break space

   key <AB01> { [ 0x1000638, 0x1000643, 0x10006D2 ] }; // Arabic zah, Arabic kaf, Arabic yeh barree
   key <AB02> { [ 0x1000637, 0x1000653, 0x1000691 ] }; // Arabic tah, Arabic maddah above, Arabic rreh
   key <AB03> { [ 0x1000632, 0x1000698, 0x1000696 ] }; // Arabic zain, Arabic jeh,  Arabic reh with dot below and dot above
   key <AB04> { [ 0x1000631, 0x1000670, 0x1000693 ] }; // Arabic_ra (reh?), Arabic superscript alef, Arabic reh with ring
   key <AB05> { [ 0x1000630, 0x100200C, 0x1000688 ] }; // Arabic_thal, zero width non-joiner, Arabic ddal
   key <AB06> { [ 0x100062F, 0x1000654, 0x1000689 ] }; // Arabic dal, Arabic hamza above, Arabic dal with ring
   key <AB07> { [ 0x100067E, 0x1000621, 0x1000679 ] }; // Arabic peh, Arabic hamza, Arabic tteh
   key <AB08> { [ 0x1000648, greater, comma ] }; // Arabic_waw
   key <AB09> { [ period, less, 0x10006C7 ] }; // Arabic u
   key <AB10> { [ slash, 0x100061F, 0x10006C9 ] }; // Arabic question mark, Arabic kirghiz yu

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

from http://evertype.com/standards/af/