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Console-Setup switch



Change in the wiki, by Samuel:

>    * Include kbd-udeb to the initrd images
> -  * (to be detailed) get rid of console-data (From Anton: "The most difficult part inside console-setup is to make the model/layout strings translatable. The X upstream provides translations in a xml file but I have no idea how to use them.)
> +  * (to be detailed) get rid of console-data (From Anton: "The most difficult part inside console-setup is to make the model/layout strings translatable. The X upstream provides translations in a xml file but I have no idea how to use them. ST: translations are not in the xml file, they are in mere .po files in po/ of xkeyboard-config (or .mo in the .deb), ideally we could just give their path to po2debconf)
> +  * parse base.xml to generate locale/country -> layout/variant default choice (ask ST, some bugs are being fixed in xkeyboard-config).
> +  * parse base.xml to get e.g; compose:caps) default_compose='Caps Lock';; (ask ST) (translations are also available in the po/ directory of xkeyboard-config)
>    * (optional?) use the Ubuntu way to set the keymap?


If I understand well, the strings used by console-setup for keymap
names are indeed used from an XML file...that's built by
xkeyboard-config, where these strings are translatable through PO
files.

If that's right, it means that a main blocker for the swith to
console-setup does not really exist and we could re-consider this more
carefully. 

Am I right?


(Samuel, CC'ing you to get attention, only. I know you're subscribed
to -boot)



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