Firefox OS: Designing Khmer Keyboard & Fonts

Arky <arky@mozilla.com>Mozilla Community Manager

Barcamp Phnom Penh, Sept 2014

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!

About Firefox OS

On Sale: The $33 Smart Phone

More Firefox OS Phones

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/os/devices/

Language Support on Mobile Phones

● Text Shaping Engine (Harfbuzz-ng)● Fonts ● Language Localization ● Input Systems

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!

Khmer Localization

http://mozilla.locamotion.org/km/

Localization

Keyboard Design: Fix Bug 962985

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.

Show me the code ...

Further Work

● Design better Khmer Keyboard(s) ● Khmer input engine (?)● Khmer Dictionary ● Any more ideas... ?

Q & A