GNOME char picker to get South African characters
We’ve just submitted a bug to GNOME which adds character pickers for Afrikaans and a seperate one for Venda, Tswana and Northern Sotho.
What does this mean? Character Picker is a GNOME applet, its sits on the GNOME taskbar and displays a small list of buttons. Useful if your keyboard doesn’t have those characters and you’re not sure how to type them. In South Africa there are a number of people who need to type a few characters who find the keyboard difficult to understand or don’t want to mess with their keyboard.
Of course we have a keyboard! But this is just a nice to have little extra. We certainly will find it useful as although we have keyboards setup sometime we simply need the list of characters easily accesible.