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Re: Wanted: Keyboard info



On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:04:33 +0100
Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl> wrote:

> (I _am_ subscribed to the list now; thought I really ought to be :-)
> 
> On Tuesday 11 January 2005 17:02, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> > I used the maps in console-data/debian/udeb/console-keymaps-*.
> > I saw no specific dutch, nor us_intl keymap there. Actually, nl_NL
> > uses 'us' and nl_BE uses 'be'. I could not find where us_intl is
> > used.
> 
> Hmmm. The problem with these lists is that they only have the default 
> keymap to use for a language. However, that does not mean a user can't
> 
> choose another keymap from the lists shown by kbd-chooser.
> 
> The list for AT does (for example) include a Dutch keymap:
> /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/nl.kmap.gz
> 
> AFAICT, the full lists of available keymaps are listed in the
> templates installed from the various console-keymaps-*.udeb. They are
> build from console-data (which I know nothing about; maybe Christian
> can tell you more).
> 
> I was wrong about the Dutch mac-usb keymap (does not exist) and the 
> us_intl keymap (does exist, but is not selectable within d-i).

I do not know much about the workings of d-i, but shouldn't us_intl be
selectable? It is the keymap that is used by 99% of the PC-users in
the Netherlands and I imagine many more in the rest in Europe.

grts Tim



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