Firefox OS : Designing Khmer Keyboard and Fonts
- 1. Firefox OS: Designing Khmer Keyboard & Fonts Arky <arky@mozilla.com> Mozilla Community Manager Barcamp Phnom Penh, Sept 2014
- 2. About Mozilla Community Manager Living in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Creating, connecting and supporting New localization teams world-wide This talk documents the on-going Khmer Internationalization(i18n) work by Mozilla contributors!
- 4. On Sale: The $33 Smart Phone
- 5. More Firefox OS Phones https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/
- 6. Language Support on Mobile Phones ● Text Shaping Engine (Harfbuzz-ng) ● Fonts ● Language Localization ● Input Systems
- 7. Fonts ● Danh Hong's Noto Sans Khmer UI font ● Testing new fonts is simpler! ● Connect your Firefox OS device to the PC. ● Mount the /system partition. $ adb shell mount -o remount,rw /system ● Copy the font. $ adb push font.ttf /system/fonts/ ● Reboot the phone!
- 9. Localization
- 10. Keyboard Design: Fix Bug 962985
- 11. Testing Keyboards on emulator ● $ git clone https://github.com/arky/gaia/tree/khmer-keyboard ● $ cd gaia ● $ GAIA_KEYBOARD_LAYOUTS=en,km make ● $ (b2g_sdk/34.0a1-2014-08-12-04-02-01/b2g/)b2g -profile profile The Firefox OS emulator enables you to test the keyboard. More detailed description is on Mozilla Developer page.
- 12. Show me the code ...
- 13. Further Work ● Design better Khmer Keyboard(s) ● Khmer input engine (?) ● Khmer Dictionary ● Any more ideas... ?
- 14. Q & A