simply click on the character you want in the character map tool found on your OS and in the status bar it will show you the keyboard combination to use. beware that some characters are not available if you are typing a document in ascii Steve Obbayi, _____ From: skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke [mailto:skunkworks-bounces@lists.my.co.ke] On Behalf Of Evans Ikua Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:26 PM To: Skunkworks forum Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] African Locales - Kikuyu gurus In fact I was about to raise this issue. I have done it in the past. Some time way back I was designing a funeral programme in kikuyu, and I managed to use those characters. There is a key combination (on any keyboard) that produces special characters depending on particular number combinations. I had a listing of them but am not sure I will get it now. I will look and let you know. But in case anybody toboas that please share with us. Something like you shift (or alt) and hit 100 or something. Ikua On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Ndungi, Use character mapper. Type charmap in the run command box (both windows and Linux have it) . For Linux, at least I know Knoppix 5 has it, or else you could sudo apt-get it. Me. 2009/5/20 Ndungi Kyalo <ndungi@gmail.com> Speaking of local languages, am yet to find out how we put that "~" on top of an "i" (replacing the dot) with the current keyboard layouts. anybody know? Secondly, some words in my mother tongue (Kamba) spelt the same way, mean entirely different things when pronounced with different intonations. I wonder how this situation is handled by locale translators? Am first to propose a Kao keyboard layout ! On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Kariuki Martin <martinkariuki7@gmail.com> wrote:
Apana bwana! Who says we cannot be joyful in our cultural ways for fear of being tribal?
I think the moment a people lose proud in who they are, they are lost. For own interests, politicians poisoned our positive cultural affiliations. By creating and instilling new fear culture "they are out to finish us." It fragmented "Kenyan" and let's face it, it gets worse if 'concealed' MJ, whom I thought was South African, even publishes that he's an American. "Mr. Joseph is a U.S. citizen and obtained a B. Sc. (cum laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cape Town.."<http://www.safaricom.co.ke/index.php?id=433#c1363> Remember prior to infamous "PEV" I used to call a neighbour "wewe jaluo" and he'd respond "nini okuyu" because we were defined by <http://africamatters.blogspot.com/2008/01/tribalism-in-kenya.html> Heck, we have a rich and diverse cultural heritage :-) And if not a word is meant to insult anyone, then as far as I am concerned its ok to express it in whatever language. We should stop pretending, cease speaking in hush tones about it in public only to retreat to the real dangerous scheming tribal cocoons... else follow politicians be doomed :-( _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Skunkworks announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general -- Ndungi Kyalo _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Skunkworks announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general -- שִׁמְעוֹן _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Skunkworks announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi - http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general