Feature Keyboards and Languages 8.2
Languages and keyboards
OLPC relies on volunteers and country experts for keyboard knowledge and for translations of the Sugar user interface and all the Activities that many contributors have provided. Translations are not tested or approved by OLPC. Both translations and Keyboards must tested and approved by the country designated experts or by volunteers.
Thanks to members of the worldwide OLPC Translation Project, who can be found on the localization mailing list, the following languages show more than 80% of the Sugar interface has been translated:
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Greek
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kinyarwanda
- Kreyol
- Marathi
- Mongolian
- Nepali
- Portuguese
- Sinhala
- Spanish
- Telugu
- Turkish
- Urdu
The following table lists the locale code for each language and the corresponding control panel entries.
| Locale | Language | Control Panel Entry | Notes |
| pt_BR | Brazilian Portuguese | Portuguese (Brasil) | |
| en_* | English | English (*) | Locales for multiple regions are supported with a single translation (eg: English (USA), English (Great Britain), etc) |
| fr_* | French | French (*) | Locales for multiple regions are supported with a single translation (eg: French (France), French (Belgium), etc) |
| de_* | German | German (*) | Locales for multiple regions are supported with a single translation (eg: German (Germany), German (Austria) etc) |
| el_* | Greek | Greek (*) | Locales for multiple regions are supported with a single translation (eg: Greek (Greece), Greek (Cyprus), etc) |
| it | Italian | Italian (*) | Locales for multiple regions are supported with a single translation (eg: Italian (Italy), Italian (Switzerland), etc) |
| ja | Japanese | Japanese (Japan) | |
| rw | Kinyarwanda | Kinyarwanda (Rwanda) | |
| ht | Kreyol | Kreyol (Haiti) | Locale data not integrated into glibc (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459547) |
| mr | Marathi | Marathi (India) | |
| mn | Mongolian | Mongolian (Mongolia) | |
| ne | Nepali | Nepali (Nepal) | |
| pt | Portuguese | Portuguese (Portugal) | |
| si | Sinhala | Sinhala (Sri Lanka) | |
| es_* | Spanish | Spanish (*) | Locales for multiple regions are supported with a single translation (eg: Spanish (Peru), Spanish (Uruguay) etc) |
| te | Telugu | Telugu (India) | |
| tr_* | Turkish | Turkish (*) | Locales for multiple regions are supported with a single translation (eg: Turkish (Turkey), Turkish (Cyprus), etc) |
| ur | Urdu | Urdu (Pakistan) |
The builds also ship the following languages, with more than 50% user interface coverage.
| Locale | Language | Control Panel Entry | Notes |
| ar_* | Arabic | Arabic (*) | Locales for multiple regions are supported with a single translation (eg: Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Lebanon), etc) |
| fa_AF | Daro | Dari (Afghanistan) | |
| ps | Pashto | Pashto (Afghanistan) | |
Languages which are not in the official builds can be installed by means of Language Packs
Apart from the languages mentioned above, a number of languages have more than half of the user interface strings translated. Please note that none of the translations are officially supported by OLPC. If you want to get involved in the volunteer driven translation efforts, visit the OLPC Translation Project.
Keyboards that were tested by OLPC with country support for this release include:
- English, OLPC_English_Keyboard
- Spanish, OLPC_Spanish_Keyboard
- Amharic, OLPC_Amharic_Keyboard
All keyboards that are currently shipping have been booted up with the 8.2 release, but we have not had confirmation that the following are working properly. This list includes:
- Portuguese, OLPC_Portuguese_Keyboard
- Arabic, OLPC_Arabic_Keyboard
- Thai, OLPC_Thai_Keyboard
- Urdu, OLPC_Urdu_Keyboard
- Cyrillic, OLPC_Russian_Keyboard
- Mongolian, OLPC_Mongolian_Keyboard
- Devanagari, OLPC_Devanagari_Keyboard
- Dari, OLPC_Dari_Keyboard
- Khmer, OLPC_Khmer_Keyboard
- French-Canadian, OLPC_French_(ca)(ht)_Keyboard
The keyboard layout can be changed by following the process described here.