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Bug#357480: xlibs: Confusion between latam and la keyboard layouts



On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 09:16:35AM -0600, Daniel Manrique wrote:
> For some reason the xlibs package has a "la" keyboard layout corresponding to the "Laos" keyboard; this is different from the rest of 
> the system configuration which assumes "la" means "latinamerican". Thus, when initially configuring the system and selecting "la", one 
> gets a latinamerican layout in text mode, but a Laos keyboard in graphical mode, thus rendering X effectively unusable. The workaround 
> is to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and explicitly select the correct layout which for some strange reason was renamed to "latam".
> 
> This behavior should be consistent between the global layout selection and that of X; either use the "latam" layout everywhere, or 
> rename xlib's laos keyboard to something else and return latinamerican to "la".

This change was, oddly enough, done for consistency within XKB itself;
la is the ISO country code for Laos.  Other tools need to be changed to
reflect this.

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