[IAEP] Still Trying... How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?

[Caryl Bigenho]

Hi Folks...
Still trying!  As noted below, I followed Tim's instructions and downloaded the Urdu character set.  However, I was not able to access it from Write.  I spent some time working on this with a person who speaks and reads several middle eastern languages. Any ideas?  What should I try next?  Has anyone changed to another character set on their own rather than getting it that way from the factory?
Caryl

From: cbigenho at hotmail.com
To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 12:41:09 -0800
Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?








Thanks Tim.  The download seems to have gone smoothly. It reported that paktype/teheer is now available.  However, when I went to the Write Activity, it did not appear among the available choices. Will it have a different name?  There are several fonts labeled with letter codes such as kacstPen, cmsy10, wasy10, etc.

Caryl

Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:45:00 +1300
From: mcnamara.tim at gmail.com
To: support-gang at lists.laptop.org
Subject: Re: [support-gang] [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set?

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:






Hi...

Ed Cherlin suggests installing an Urdu font (on the XO, I assume).  So, where do I find instructions for doing this and the file I would need to download to the XO?  Why isn't it already there or on the wiki.  People are using Urdu keyboards, right?


Caryl


Hi Caryl,
This was hinted at during the original answer. Connect the XO to the Internet, open the Terminal Activity and run 

yum install ttf-paktype/tehreer
This asks Fedora to install the typeface for you. Do let me know how you get on.
Tim  @timClicks  Director, Kiwi PyCon 2011


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