Re: [developers] xkb keyboard layout vs. input methods im-chooser

["Muayyad AlSadi" <alsadi at gmail dot com>]

sure, Khalid, it's a very great work
yes it should be upstreamed

how yo make xim the default for arabic

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> wrote:
> Guys, what do you think, is this satisfactory solution to be pushed
> upstream? If so, I'll prepare a patch against X locale data then fix the
> xkb layout to match it.
>
> Now I've the idea of using Unicode unassigned code points in the xkb
> layout and X locale file instead of the values from presentation forms,
> this will mean if this feature didn't work with the user, he will get an
> invalid character and he will notice the presence of a problem instead
> of the pseudo characters that presentation forms give.
>
> Regards,
>  Khaled
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 11:04:57PM +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
>> Thanks, it worked
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
>> >> good job,
>> >> but I did not get it khalid
>> >> is it for xkb or IM
>> >
>> > To be honest, I'm not sure how this "composite keys" feature work,
>> > google didn't help. I discovered it by reading this post on gnome-i18n
>> > list http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-i18n/2008-June/msg00030.html.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> after editing those files do I have to restart x, run some
>> >> compile/cache command or what ever
>> >
>> > I did nothing other than restarting X. If you are using GTK+ app, make
>> > sure you are using X input method (select it from the right click menu,
>> > or set the GTK_IM_MODULE="xim" environment variable.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >  Khaled
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> wrote:
>> >> > It does work with mlterm too, the problem was in my configuration.
>> >> > You will need to add 'GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"' to your ~/.xsessionrc or the
>> >> > system wide file.
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:05:43PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> >> >> I found a workaround using X composite keys, it might not be an optimum
>> >> >> solution but it does work with GTK/QT apps at least (but not with mlterm).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Add the following lines to "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose":
>> >> >> <UFEFB> :       "لا" # LAM WITH ALEF
>> >> >> <UFEF7> :       "لأ" # LAM WITH ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
>> >> >> <UFEF9> :       "لإ" # LAM WITH ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
>> >> >> <UFEF5> :       "لآ" # LAM WITH ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Then edit "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ara" and look for the relevant
>> >> >> lines, replace VoidSymbol in your file with the corresponding code
>> >> >> point, so that it looks like:
>> >> >> ...
>> >> >> key <AD05> { [Arabic_feh,  0x100FEF9] };
>> >> >> ...
>> >> >> key <AC05> { [Arabic_lam,  0x100FEF7] };
>> >> >> ...
>> >> >> key <AB05> { [0x100FEFB,   0x100FEF5] };
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Then you will need to tell GTK to use XIM:
>> >> >> export GTK_IM_MODULE="xim"
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You might need this with QT too (worked without this on my system):
>> >> >> export QT_IM_MODULE="xim"
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Regards,
>> >> >>  Khaled
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:59:25PM +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
>> >> >> > B and G are disabled in arabic keyboard layout
>> >> >> > in the new ubuntu and fedora
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > so does this also applies to input methods
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > have't any one involved with input methods and arabic
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > does they support لا
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>> >> >>  Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team
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