Talk:OLPC Nigeria Keyboard

Upstream and design question

Hi. Why isn’t this keyboard layout upstream in freedesktop? Is the design of the layout related to the NITDA keyboard? --Moyogo 04:34, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

We are moving all of our keyboard layouts upstream. We are also trying to adhere to the existing XKB symbol files where possible. In the case of Nigeria, we did not only take into account Yoruba, as per the NITDA keyboard, but also added a number of additional glyphs to support other Western Africa languages. We opted to use the Unicode "combining" keys for the accent characters, but the basic functionality is the same. (We use the Alt Gr key rather than Shift and Ctrl.) --Walter 07:00, 4 September 2007 (EDT)

FYI, We are using overlays exensively for Amharic. But it is probably more overhard than is necessary for just adding relatviely standard Latin accents such as dot below or dot above. Also, one could opt for the XKB "dead key" approach, but X does not currently have dead keys assigned to all of the standard accents. --Walter 03:27, 5 September 2007 (EDT)