[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Sample keyboard layout file

[From: mayank jain]

On 2/13/07, Tomas Junnonen <tomas1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The format of the virtual keyboard files has been documented [1] for
> some time, but unless you're familiar with XML DTD's and really
> patient it's probably hard create a full keyboard from scratch. So, in
> the hopes that it will help people create additional keyboards of
> their own I'm making an English Dvorak layout with its source
> available as an example:
>
>   http://770.fs-security.com/extra-layouts/kb-layout-sample_1.0.0-1_all.deb
>   http://770.fs-security.com/extra-layouts/kb-layout-sample.tar.gz

Hi Tomas, everyone,

I'm the downstream maintainer for m17n-db[1] for Fedora/RHEL and was
particularly interested in porting the Indic (& other) keymaps to
Maemo. Though m17n-db & Maemo (vkb) have altogether different format,
but it would be interesting to be able to convert from m17n-db to vkb,
either via scripts or manually.

For the current vkb's implementation, I'm very much interested to see
how complex characters (indic ligeratures) with multiple key-inputs
forming one ligerature are handled by Maemo.

I'm starting porting some simple keymaps first (manually though) &
would put them up for testing once done.

Example of a very direct one-to-one key-mapping of en_US keyboard with
Assamese (as_IN) -
http://cvs.m17n.org/viewcvs/m17n/m17n-contrib/im/as-inscript.mim?view=markup

Lets bring i18n input to Maemo :)

Makuchaku
http://www.makuchaku.info/blog