Good question really - it's UTF-8 but you need to use & for ampersand cos of the syntax..

Russian Keyboard Layout for him-arabic/Mer
Kirill Plyashkevich
License: GPLv2 or later

Portuguese-BR
Bobbe
GPLv2 or later

(I changed the language tab <him-arabic>, to <him-portuguese-br>. Dunno if I should have done that)

This should work for all Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, etc.)

Based on the keyboard sitting right in front of me an the English HIM layout, with slight changes. (The Portuguese layout on my N800 has an umlaut in the main rows of keys, a symbol we don't have in Portuguese, but do have in Portuguese Keyboards. It's there as well, but as shift-6, as it is usually found here).

If people want to test their keyboards, here is what I did to get Finnish keyboard to work (after him-arabic installed):


cp fi.xml.txt /usr/share/him-arabic/fi.xml
him-arabic-register fi_FI
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/osso/inputmethod/hildon-im-languages/fi_FI/word-completion false
gconftool-2 -s -t string /apps/osso/inputmethod/hildon-im-languages/language-1 fi_FI
gconftool-2 -s -t int /apps/osso/inputmethod/hildon-im-languages/current 1


Then select keyboard(arabic) in keyboard menu and fi_FI in language menu. The key under TAB switches between fi and en keyboards.

Note that you can test it in maemo as well, not only Mer.

I've got a small question. What's about adding some extra keys to layout? E.g. my locale layout (on real keyboards) have no ~`<>|$@#^&[]{} symbols.

See the attached en.xml for example. On SmartQ5 I used it a little with a finger, and it works very well, even though the keys are small.
In general, you can put as many keys in a row as you like.

If it is for me, then I didn't figure out the question right. I was talking about custom modifications for layout (adding those symbols) in a situation, when on original locale keyboard layout they don't exist.

Looking at the keyboard of my Compaq nc4200 I made an Italian layout which sports practically all the useful keys, also those in third function (Alt Gr).

EDIT: I've changed the disposition in one that might be more comfortable.

fred, your file has two "quote" key lines in the first row :
<key name="'" expand="0" />
<key name="'" expand="0" />

stkeeps : is there no way to declare the extra characters on some keys (AltGr) ?

@english and german layout: Just wondering why you are starting the numbering row with "0" and not ordering like a regular keyboard from 1 up to 9 and then the 0.

Please find attached the persian keyboard layout released under GPLv2 or later.