Re: Arabic Keyboard Problem

[Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif at gmx dot net>]

>So, if you were to take my suggestion,
> we would change the line that reads:
>
> key <BKSL> { [  ], [     backslash,      bar               ]       };
>
> back to:
>
> key <BKSL> { [  ], [     Arabic_thal,      Arabic_shadda   ]       };
>
>
> And replace the line that reads:
>
> key <TLDE> { [  ], [     Arabic_thal,      Arabic_shadda   ]       };
>
> with something else... in my version of this file (from Linux Mandrake) I
> have it replaced with the following:
>
> key <TLDE> { [  ], [     less,		greater ]	};
>
> This is just a suggestion.  The benefits of course are that we get the
> "less than" and "greater than" symbols, and since we already have a
> "backslash" somewhere else the original change that was made would be
> redundant, and the "bar" character is not that useful in Arabic anyways, in
> fact, I only see it when I program (and there aren't many, if any, Arabic
> programming languages that I have heard of).
>

Well, we aren't related to microsoft , we want to do what we think is right , 
I mean I always get diappointed cuz of this bad arrangement of keys in 
Microsoft Windows , and when I did that change I made it so when the user 
type thal he get thal
we can also put the less,greater chars anywhere else may be in <BKSL> or 
something else that's less useless

>
> Now of course, if you really wanted to add some extra characters or fix up
> bad ones, below are a bunch of broken keys...  at least I believe that they
> are broken since I use this keyboard layout with KDE everyday and none of
> these keys seem to have any effect.  The broken parts are those in hex and
> the letter 'S' which isn't really broken but rather unusual in an Arabic
> keyboard:
>
thanks for your suggetions , you know it's under developement , so I and Isam 
are working in it but everyone else can work in it too, you can join us 
making it better.

the keyboard layout needs restructuring indeed :)

but always remember that we are not working to make this keyboard layout 
Microsoft compatible , we do just what we think is right and comfortable for 
all of us , (Microsoft is not standard to follow afterall)

but as this keyboard layout is for all of us not only for me, so if isam and 
others agrees with you , I would be happy to change it or you can do it 
yourself

about the numbers , if you type an arabic letter and type a number after it , 
it will Hendi number (Which we want it to be) but if you type an english 
letter and a number after it , it will be an arabic letter (Which we don't 
need)
so it's up to the user , the numbers are the same