Bug 2327

Summary: [PATCH] To display Thai characters in xkbprint
Product: xorg Reporter: Poonlap Veerathanabutr <poonlap>
Component: * OtherAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: medium Keywords: i18n
Version: git   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
URL: http://linux.thai.net/~poonlap/code/xkbprint_thai.patch
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Patch for xkbprint to display characters instead of keysym names
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Output (PDF) of xkbprint without patch
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Output (PDF) of xkbprint _with_ patch none

Description Poonlap Veerathanabutr 2005-01-19 06:30:32 UTC 
When using xkbprint to print keyboard layout with symbols, it will use keysym
name to display. Because the space on a key is limited, the symbol names will
display uglily and this is not so useful, for example

http://linux.thai.net/~poonlap/images/xkbprint_traditional.pdf

I would like to propose a patch to display characters (in my case is Thai)
instead of symbol names. It is more useful for a user, for example (the same
layout with patch)

http://linux.thai.net/~poonlap/images/tis-820.2538.pdf

My patch is located at

http://linux.thai.net/~poonlap/code/xkbprint_thai.patch

It includes Thai pfa font (GPL license), and code to detect if the layout
includes Thai or not. If there is a Thai keyboard defined, it will setup font
and display Thai characters. If there is no Thai keyboard, it will not set
anything about Thai displaying. 

I think this approach is useful for other languages also.

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Poonlap
Comment 1 Poonlap Veerathanabutr 2005-01-19 06:31:51 UTC 
Created attachment 1713 [details] [review]
Patch for xkbprint to display characters instead of keysym names
Comment 2 Poonlap Veerathanabutr 2005-01-19 06:36:05 UTC 
Created attachment 1714 [details]
Output (PDF) of xkbprint without patch
Comment 3 Poonlap Veerathanabutr 2005-01-19 06:36:42 UTC 
Created attachment 1715 [details]
Output (PDF) of xkbprint _with_ patch
Comment 4 Poonlap Veerathanabutr 2005-01-19 06:38:42 UTC 
Here are the commands to create the sample.

$ setxkbmap -layout us,th_tis
$ xkbprint -nokc -nkg 2 -eps -label symbols  -color :0 xkbprint_traditional.eps
Comment 5 Alan Coopersmith 2005-10-01 00:21:09 UTC 
Sorry, but X.Org does not accept code under the GPL license.

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