Comment 45 for bug 62587

(In reply to comment #24)
> (In reply to comment #21)
> > Which Arabic layout/variant shall I activate,
> > what keys I should press and
> > what I am expected to get?
> >
>
> You'll need to apply the second patch in #13894 to restore the removed keys,
> pressing the keys corresponding to b, shift+b, shift+g and shift+t with the
> Arabic layout should give you لا and لآ and لأ and لإ respectively as
> two characters not a single character (presentation form).
>

Thanks, I managed to figure out my way with James's explanation.

The status we are now at, is this

1. GTK+ applications (Openoffice, Firefox, all of GNOME, Gimp, inkscape, etc) require to have their own copy of the compose sequences so that it works. Otherwise, the default installation will not be able to work for these compose sequences.

2. I produced a patch for this at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537457
which covers Khmer and Arabic, the only two scripts with such compose sequences.
Of course, I trid it out and it works fine.

3. If you want to go for it and use these compose sequences, the situation is is like this: the next GTK+ stable release comes in a week or so, so it's tough to get this patch included now. It looks feasible to get the patch in six months time, when a new stable release comes out.

4. I am not sure what input method you use for the OLPC. If you use GTK+ IM, I am happy to work on a suitable patch so that it works for you, and you can use now.