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Bug#378309: xkb-data: Please include the Dzongkha keyboard layout (dz)



On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 07:05:04AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > xkb-data contains country-based layout whenever possible, and this
> > layout is already included in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/bt.
> > AFAICT symbols in the range U0000...U0100 must use symbolic names,
> > so I will send the following patch upstream.  Please tell me if
> > other changes are needed.
> 
> Something else: could this "bt" layout be selected when the X server
> packages are installed?
> 
> AFAICT this is done in xserver-xorg config script but the only logic
> there is based on the "DI keymap". However, for languages that are
> used only with the graphical version of DI, the selection of the
> keymap, namely the console keymap, is mostly irrelevant (for instance,
> there is obviously no Dzongkha/Bhutan keymap in console-data).
> 
> This is not only a problem for Dzongkha, actually, but also for all
> languages which do not have a specific  console keyboard layout
> because it is pointless.

As pointed out in http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2003/12/msg00099.html
I am not happy with X maintainer scripts and am not willing to spend
a single minute on them.  If we can finally get rid of all those crappy
shell functions (at the moment xserver-xorg.config contains 2000 lines,
800 lines are for unused shell functions), I will happily reconsider my
position.

Denis



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