Comment 11 for bug 62587

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In , Freedesktop (freedesktop) wrote :

(In reply to comment #10)
> Very interesting suggestion to solve this by keyboard layout: we have the luxury
> of building our own keyboards; we are in the middle of layout right now.
>
> This won't help other existing keyboards of course.

Right. I didn't have that in mind. For Persian, most people don't use a
labeled keyboard anyway, so the layout is not hardcoded by the hardware.

> Behnam, IIRC we plan to see you here at OLPC when the Thai delegation visits us
> very soon. In the meanwhile, I expect we can get interested people proposed
> keyboard layouts for review.

Err... I'm "Behdad", going to be in Boston Oct 7th..22th. "Behnam" is my
brother in Iran :-).

Behnam, Youssef, can you two send out a message to the Arabeyes list to gather a
list of characters, then review current layouts and come up with a proposed one.
 CC me in all communications and I'll try to help time permitting. Thanks.