Re: Arabic Keyboard Problem

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at accessme dot com>]

Salam Jihad 
	:-) well .. the IBM keyboard does indeed differ .. but key in mind that the 
look ( picture of the keyboard) is not the determining issue on the 
differance .. it does not Matter if you have the Enter on the left, or right, 
it does not matter if your keypad is in a split piece, or if you have a split 
keyboard .. the look does not really matter .. although it may cause 
confusion .. 
What matters really if the keymap file .. if I know tha the ( H ) in the 
latin keyboard is the ALEF .. It wouldn't matter if my keyboard is from the 
fancy split types that was around few years ago ..

see what I mean ?!


On Saturday 05 January 2002 20:39, you wrote:
> Hi,
> Just to increase the confusen, I picked up my old OS/2 2.1 box and had a
> look at one of the manuals dated 1993 (yes babe!) and looked at the
> keyboard section. The very first one was Arabic.
>
> This is how what I have differ from the M$ keyboard provided by Mark:
> - "<>" instead of ESC
> - No "<>" beside the bar.
> - "\_"  instead of the wide right shift.
> - A smaller "enter" key and a key to the right of "Tah" for "thal".
> - A longer "enter" key, backspace and enter are merged in my case.
> - Backspace replaces the two keys shown above "enter", that represent "\|"
> and "thal". - "mim" and "haa" has switched positions.
>
> Now tell me this:
> Do you have a wide backspace or two other keys?
> Where is your ESC key located?
> What keys do you have on the very lowest row of keys.
> How does your entry key looks like.
>
> And now, compare your answers to Mark's M$ layout. If it's differ then
> Mark's layout is a schematic layout and not very useful, which I claim.
> What I see that Mark's keyboards don't even match any Latin keyboard! I
> remember to have the same problem when I used Acon before and the very
> first xkbd map was made (a couple of years ago!).
>
> The answer of this discussion i, from IBM's point of view (which might be
> rusty now): the "thal" is on the right, to the left of "tah".
>
> They funny thing is that I have never own an Arabic keyboard.

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Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
Amman - Jordan
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