Fantastic news! Let's all make sure speakers of
these languages hear of
this and incorporate it into their work and their trainings.
A.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2018, 12:37 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il
wrote:
Hi!
I'm very happy to announce that the keyboard support for five languages
of Africa has improved!
The languages are Ewe, Fon, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba. The improved typing
support is usable on any desktop computer with a browser with JavaScript
enabled. It is installed in Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, and
also on
translatewiki.net.
These typing tools don't require the installation of any software on your
computers, or using any key combinations (like Alt or Ctrl). Most special
characters are typed on these keyboards by typing the tilde (~) character
before the special letter.
See the full documentation here:
* Ewe:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:
UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/ee-tilde
* Fon:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:
UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/fon-tilde
* Hausa:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:
UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/ha-tilde
* Igbo:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:
UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/ig-tilde
* Yoruba:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:
UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods/yo-tilde
Some thanks and credits:
The Fon keyboard was originally made by Mahuton Possoupe at the Barcelona
Hackathon. This week I updated it with some more necessary characters by
Mahuton's request.
The Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba keyboards were requested by User:HandsomeBoy
at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_
Survey_2019/Editing/Add_key_mapping_for_Yoruba,_Igbo,_and_Hausa_to_ULS .
The keyboard for Ewe was requested by Felix Nartey.
Kartik Mistry was very helpful with reviewing the code for the keyboards,
and of course I thank all the developers of jquery.ime (
https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/ ), the underlying technology
that was used to make them.
If you have any questions about these keyboards, or if you want to
request keyboard support for more languages, please reach out to me or
leave a note at the talk page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Extension:
UniversalLanguageSelector/Input_methods
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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