Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthibault@debian.org): > That approach misses things. For instance, Andorra (AD)'s official > language is catalan (cat), for which you only provide es' cat variant > layout. Xorg does have an ad layout which is quite different from es' > cat variant. And that is only the first one in the xkb list. > > Ok, that's no regression from what we had previously and we have no > AD locale for now, but should we really select keyboards by hand and There *is* a ca_AD locale... > restrict ourselves from just automatically supporting such keyboard? > > I have a script that can automatically generate the attached perl hash > (kbds), which I had meant to use to automatically determine the default > keyboard to use depending on the country/language pair, to replace the > handcrafted switch statement of console-setup's config. That brings 137 > keyboard layouts which we should ideally support (kbds2). Actually, I think that your script is great to provide us with the *maximum* keymap number we shoudl present to users. However, I still think we should be selective in it. For instance, I don't see any purpose in having a keymap for Oriya/India while we don't support Oriya in D-I. Given that adding a new language in D-I goes through a very formalized process, I think we should still take languages as the starting basis and only list keymaps that support languages which we support in D-I..... Of course, when we add a new language, then we will add the needed keymaps.
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