<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> 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 > Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 13:01:46 -0500 > Subject: Re: [IAEP] How do I switch the keyboard to another character set? > From: echerlin@gmail.com > To: cbigenho@hotmail.com > CC: support-gang@laptop.org; iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 01:42, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi... > > > > If one had a simple overlay with the Urdu keyboard symbols on it, what would > > be the exact procedure for switching the keys to Urdu? I tried in My > > Settings-> Keyboard-> Urdu -> Urdu Pakistan, but the result was a lot of > > little squares with symbols in them... maybe hex code? They look similar to > > what I have seem from some of my multilingual acquaintances on Facebook. > > > > Anybody know how to do this? > > I believe that you only need to install an Urdu font such as > ttf-paktype/tehreer. Most Arabic fonts omit several letters needed in > Urdu. I have appended a screen capture from Sugar on Ubuntu. > > > Caryl > > _______________________________________________ > > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > -- > Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://www.earthtreasury.org/ </body> </html>