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console-data: default keyboard layout selection for Malayalam in udeb



Package: console-data
Severity: wishlist


(let's submit this as a bug against the relevant package. To Praveen:
it's normal that you could not spot the right package as this is not
very obvious)

Quoting Praveen A (pravi.a@gmail.com):
> Hi,
> 
> Can "American English" be selected as default keyboard layout when
> Malayalam is selected as installation language? May be an option
> somewhere for each language to specify default layout would be great.


Right.

Indeed, we should have a way, in console-data, for American English to
be the default *when no other default is set*. 

We have a mechanism to set the default on a per-language basis (see
udeb/console-keymaps-at) but when a language is not specified there,
the first language in the list (which indeed depends on the language's
sort order) is chosen.

We could of course add Malayalam there:*
en:en_CA:en_US:en_AU:zh:eo:ko:us:nl:nl_NL:ar:fa:hi:id:mg:sq:tl:vi:xh    us      American

That would be enough but not very scalable.

I'm however unsure whether just setting a default to "us" in
debian/console-keymaps-*.templates would be enough....or if it is
likely to break setting the default to something else for other
languages.

To be tested in detail by the console-data maintainer.....:-)


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