Cyrillic Mongolian keyboard for KTouch

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimarts, 2 d’agost de 2016, a les 2:32:01 CEST, Popolon va escriure:
> Hi,
> 
> First, thanks for your answer.

Please keep the list in CC so others can see it.

> I use the default cyrrilic mongolian keyboard (used in Mongolia) for
> linux, aka, adding it from keybords (on Ubuntu, but should be the same
> on archlinux on other distribution, has it depend on X11 keyboards),
> switch from french one to cyrillic mongolian one by prefs or an icon on
> my deskbar. I followed characters that was on linux one, the | key seems
> different on the bottom part on windows cyrillic mongolian keyboard, the
> other keys are at the same place than on windows one. I typed keys one
> by one on their position to be sure to have matching position.

Ok, thanks.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> I also wrote an input method for traditionnal mongolian script (mongol
> bichig, used mainly in china) keyboard, the veriety of keyboards are for
> more numerous for traditonnal mongol, but that another subject, still
> not perfect, this script is a complex one (in the sense of input mehods)
> as for I know, and need ibus for writting. This keyboard needs to first
> be accepted by ibus.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script
> 
> There is a cyrillic mongolian keyboard for ibus too (called Maral), it
> mainly wrap letters keys and tögrög (₮, the symbol of the money, does
> not matter with keys or other special characters parameters.
> 
> Best Regards.
> 
> Popolon
> 
> Le 01/08/2016 à 23:29, Albert Astals Cid a écrit :
> > El dimarts, 12 de juliol de 2016, a les 23:24:16 CEST, Popolon va 
escriure:
> >> Hi everyone.
> >> 
> >> I'm interested in Mongolian language, and to help me improve my typing
> >> in Mongolian (first Cyrillic, later traditional Mongolian one), I would
> >> like to add Mongolian curses in KTouch.
> > 
> > I've found conflicting versions of  Cyrillic Mongolian keyboard when
> > googling for it, could you send us a picture of your keyboard (assuming
> > it has the symbols written in) to confirm this is the correct layuit?
> > 
> >> In attachment is a KTouch definition for Cyrillic Mongolian keyboard. I
> >> submit this file under the GNU General Public License, version 2.
> >> 
> >> I tied to made automatic lesson following a perl script that was in
> >> version 4.8 of KTouch, I seen the format is not the same XML format than
> >> the today generated lesson (not to hard to convert) and that they are
> >> far simpler than the today automatically generated lessons. I didn't
> >> found information about today lesson generator.
> >> 
> >> Mongolian language aspell module isn't available on some distribution,
> >> but it exists, on aspell web site at the following address (or other gnu
> >> mirror). I was able to use it to generate the simple and old format
> >> lessons.
> >> 
> >> http://mirror.ibcp.fr/pub/gnu/aspell/dict/nn/
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I noticed another problem. The keyboard used is system one (mine is
> >> French), I didn't find how to switch from one keyboard disposition to
> >> another one manually, I seen that's possible on Windows. Why for this
> >> function is disable on Linux ? I changed my used keyboard from French
> >> one to Mongolian in system preferences, it didn't work better. Perhaps
> >> because my system is in French, or the default keyboard is French. I use
> >> XFCE as desktop environment, not KDE, could it be the problem ?
> > 
> > The keyboard shown in ktouch should be the same one used in your system,
> > that should work no matter what desktop environment you are running,
> > also, KDE is not a desktop environment.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >> 
> >> Best regards,
> >> 
> >> Popolon