Ethiopian Setup

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

  • Update your OS image if it's older than joyride-76
  • Boot, switch to the console (alt-F1) and login as root.
  • Set the LANG environment variable in /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG=am_ET.UTF-8

You can do that on the fly by starting the terminal activity and typing:

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

  • 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).