Help with making keyboard for French (Togo) including symbols from local languages

[Mats Blakstad]

Hi

I've just started to learn about XKB. Sorry I post my question here if it
is the wrong place, I couldn't find any forum!

I work on a project for local languages in Togo, we're working on 25
languages there (en.globalbility.org). We want to make a new keyboard that
are based on the French one that include symbols for local languages. I've
tested with the XKB system inside Ubuntu and made a first test keybord
(really not final version, just to test it).

I have problem as there are several of the languages use tones on their
symbols like acute accent ( ´ ), grave accent ( *`* ), circumflex ( *ˆ *)
tilde ( *~ *) and macron ( ¯ ) on top of them.

Here are the extra symbols I've added to the keyboard:
ʒ ɛ ǝ ƴ ʋ ɩ ɔ ʊ ɗ ɖ ƒ ɣ ɦ ɲ ɓ ŋ

It should be possible to write them like this (examples from texts we have
produced):
ί ɔ́ ɛ́
ɛ̀ ɔ̀
ɔ̃ ɛ̃ ɔ̃ ĩ
ɛ̄
î

How can I modify these kinds of combination symbols?

I try to click AltGr+` and after AltGr+ɛ to get ɛ̀, but then noting
happens, and after I only get ɛ (without grave accent). Why? Is it because
the keyboard missunderstand when I click AltGr two times? How can I solve
this?

Here is the small file I made to test it:

default  partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "basic" {

    // First we include the whole French keyboard
    include "fr"

    // We give our new keyboard a name
    name[Group1]="French (Togo)";

    // Then we start to change the keys on the French keyboard.
    // Each key have a unique number.
    // Each key have 4 values: default, shift, altgr, shift+altgr  (altgr
is the right side 'alt' key)

    // First row


    // Second row
    key <AD02>    { [    z,    Z,    U0292,    U01B7 ] };    // U0292 = ʒ
(small), U01B7 = Ʒ (capital)
    key <AD03>    { [    e,    E,    U025B,    U0190 ]    };    // U025B =
ɛ (small), U0190 = Ɛ (capital)
    key <AD04>    { [    r,    R,    U01DD,    U018E ] };    // U01DD = ǝ
(small), U018E = Ǝ (capital)
    key <AD06>    { [    y,    Y,    U01B4,    U01B3 ] };    // U01B4 = ƴ
(small), U01B3 = Ƴ (capital)
    key <AD07>    { [    u,    U,    U028B,    U01B2 ] };    // U028B = ʋ
(small), U01B2 = Ʋ (capital)
    key <AD08>    { [    i,    I,    U0269,    U0196 ] };    // U0269 = ɩ
(small), U0196 = Ɩ (capital)
    key <AD09>    { [    o,    O,    U0254,    U0186 ] };    // U0254 = ɔ
(small), U0186 = Ɔ (capital)

    // Third row
    key <AC01>    { [    q,    Q,    U028A,    U01B1 ] };    // U028A = ʊ
(small), U01B1 = Ʊ (capital)
    key <AC02>    { [    s,    S,    U0257,    U018A ] };    // U0257 = ɗ
(small), U0189 = Ɗ (capital)
    key <AC03>    { [    d,    D,    U0256,    U0189 ] };    // U0256 = ɖ
(small), U0189 = Ɖ (capital)
    key <AC04>    { [    f,    F,    U0192,    U0191 ] };    // U0192 = ƒ
(small), U0191 = Ƒ (capital)
    key <AC05>    { [    g,    G,    U0263,    U0194 ] };    // U0263 = ɣ
(small), U0194 = Ɣ (capital)
    key <AC06>    { [    h,    H,    U0266,    U0124 ] };    // U0266 = ɦ
(small), U0124 = Ĥ (capital)
    key <AC10>    { [    m,    M,    U0272,    U019D ] };    // U0272 = ɲ
(small), U019D = Ɲ (capital)


    // Fourth row
    key <AB05>  { [    b,    B,    U0253,    U0181 ] };    // U0253 = ɓ
(small), U0181 = Ɓ (capital)
    key <AB06>    { [    n,    N,    U014B,    U014A ] };    // U014B = ŋ
(small), U014A = Ŋ (capital)


};
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