Re: IMPORTANT : Re: List of possible XkbModel entries per locale
Iranian :
'fa_IR.UTF-8' => { LAYOUT => 'us,ir', XKBOPTIONS => 'grp:ctrl_shift_toggle',
XKBMODEL => 'pc105' },
On Chahar shanbe 28 Mordad 1383 10:46, Christian Perrier wrote:
> (en anglais, by courtesy to Konstantinos who is CC'ed to this mail. If
> answering, please keep markos@debian.org CC'ed and possibly answer in
> English : if you can't do it in French, I'll deal with it with Kostas)
>
> Folks from -user-french, below is a message from my friend
> Konstantinos Margaritis who recently, built a package named
> localization-config aimed at automatically configure several stuff
> depending on the general system locale.
>
> This utility will be probably adopted by next generations of Debian
> Installer (for sarge release, the delay will probably be too short
> unfortunately....but we're trying anyway).
>
> Among several things, the utility pre-seeds settings for X keyboard
> configuration.
>
> One of the major problems of a French install (with a French
> keyboard...a normal install...not an install by a geek who thinks you
> not a man if you don't use a US keyboard) is getting X installed with
> a default US keyboard mapping.
>
> Localization-config will prevent this. It is not perfect, for sure :
> choosing the keyboard layout depending on the locale may lead to
> errors when people do NOT use their language/country usual keyboard.
>
> But, at the minimum, this will choose quite sane defaults.
>
> I need help from french-speaking users from OTHER COUNTRIES THAN
> FRANCE.
>
> Can you please complete the following with the appropriate X keyboard
> settigns for your keyboards ?
>
>
> 'ca_ES@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'es', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'da_DK' => { LAYOUT => 'dk', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'de_BE@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'de', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'de_DE@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'de', XKBOPTIONS => 'nodeadkeys', XKBMODEL =>
> 'pc105' }, 'el_GR.UTF-8' => { LAYOUT => 'us,el', XKBOPTIONS =>
> 'grp:ctrl_shift_toggle', XKBMODEL => 'pc105' }, 'en_AU' => { LAYOUT
> => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'en_CA' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'en_IE@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'en_US' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'es_AR' => { LAYOUT => 'es', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'es_ES@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'es', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'es_MX' => { LAYOUT => 'la', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'es_PE' => { LAYOUT => 'es_la', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'fi_FI@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'fi', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'fr_BE@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'be', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'fr_CA' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'fr_FR@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'fr', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'it_IT@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'it', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'ja_JP.eucJP' => { LAYOUT => 'jp', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL => 'jp106' },
> 'ko_KR' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'lv_LV' => { LAYOUT => 'lv', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'nb_NO' => { LAYOUT => 'no', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, # Same as no_NO
> 'nds_DE' => { LAYOUT => 'de', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'nl_BE@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'be', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'nl_NL@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'nn_NO' => { LAYOUT => 'no', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'no_NO' => { LAYOUT => 'no', XKBOPTIONS => '' }, # Same as nb_NO
> 'pt_BR' => { LAYOUT => 'br', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'se_NO' => { LAYOUT => 'sapmi', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'sv_SE' => { LAYOUT => 'se', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> 'tr_TR' => { LAYOUT => 'tr', XKBOPTIONS => 'grp_led:caps' },
>
> Konstantinos
>
> I already wrote :
> > 'fr_CA' => { LAYOUT => 'us', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
>
> Probably wrong. There is a Canadian keyboard, different from US. I'm
> not sure of the exact layout. Maybe 'ca' but IIRC the console keyboard
> map is "cf.kmap".
>
> > 'fr_FR@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'fr', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL='pc105' },
>
> Correct, but also add fr_FR to the list if you can. As I mentioned
> you, several users still use this locale. This is probably the same
> for all Euro countries (except Greece?).
>
> There is also a different keyboard for French Switzerland
>
> 'fr_CH' => { LAYOUT => 'fr_CH', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL='pc105' },
>
> For fr_BE this is MAYBE:
>
> 'fr_BE' => { LAYOUT => 'be', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL='pc105' },
> 'fr_BE@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'be', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL='pc105' },
>
> > 'it_IT@euro' => { LAYOUT => 'it', XKBOPTIONS => '' },
> > 'ja_JP.eucJP' => { LAYOUT => 'jp', XKBOPTIONS => '', XKBMODEL => 'jp106'
> > },
>
> You seem to support XKBMODEL, so I suggest you add it for fr_FR
> locales and set it to 'pc105'. Same for most european locales, I guess.
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