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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: KDE Keyboard layout loading problem
From:       Arash Zeini <kde () farsikde ! com>
Date:       2002-07-22 5:19:37
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Hi Anthony,

Would you please send me the keyboard you have created? You seem to have done 
everything you needed to do.
Are you sure that Arial Unicode and Clearlyu support Lao?

Greetings,
Arash

On Sunday 21 July 2002 09:24 pm, Anthony Souphavanh wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have this particular problem and wondering whether anyone could help me
> to resolve it. After I created Lao keyboard layout using UNICODE keysyms
> and load from the KDE Control manager- Keyboard panel.  Start KDE
> application, Kbabel and Kwrite,  try to type Lao using couple of UNICODE
> fonts, namely MS Arial, ClearlyU, and FIXED fonts from makr Kuhn's
> website. It doesn't work at all. What I am getting is mainly US-ascii
> characters. Then swtich to Thai and then Hebrew both worked correctly.
>
> Any suggestions for me to troubleshoot this in order to get my Lao Unicode
> under X working in the KDE enviroment?
>
> Here what I have done far and based on my research this should be working:
>
> 1. Created Lao keyboard mapping named lo and put it in the ...xkb/symbol
> directory
> 2. added lo Lao to te Xfree86.lst file in teh ../xkb/rules
> 3. added the xkb_keymap "lo".... t the xfree86 in the ../xkb/keymap
> directory
>
>
> By the way, I was able to work with just regular Lao true type fonts...as
> you may already know KE transkation required the font language to be a
> UNICODE complaince, so it could be saved in UTF-8 format.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sak S.
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