Cyrillic Mongolian keyboard for KTouch

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Fri Oct 28 22:12:55 UTC 2016


El dimarts, 2 d’agost de 2016, a les 23:42:40 CEST, Albert Astals Cid va 
escriure:
> 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 was about to commit your Mongolian keyboard file (yes it took a long time, 
sorry) and realized i don't have a name to use for the contribution, can I 
have your name?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> > 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
> 
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