[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 680990] Unnecessarily limited set of keyboard layouts available for usage on console
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680990
Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)redhat.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Keywords|Triaged |
CC| |vcrhonek(a)redhat.com
Component|system-config-keyboard |kbd
Assignee|lkundrak(a)v3.sk |vcrhonek(a)redhat.com
Summary|Missing French Canadian |Unnecessarily limited set
|Dvorak keyboard layout |of keyboard layouts
| |available for usage on
| |console
Flags| |needinfo?(vcrhonek(a)redhat.c
| |om)
--- Comment #9 from Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)redhat.com> ---
Moving this bug to kbd as I believe this is the more appropriate component.
Here is nim-nim's summary of the issue from related bug 668084:
"Basically, Debian has a nice system where xkb-config layouts (used by xorg)
are dynamically transformed into console layouts, while Fedora uses two
different layout databases, which are not synced
"No one really updates kbd layouts anymore, since it's obvious to layout
authors the Debian solution is the right solution, and once Ubuntu inherited it
from Debian it was game over for other distributions and time to play catch-up
if they wanted to care about i18n and desktop.
"The problem has been known for years and the number of people affected has
only grown with time and kbd abandonment. And yes I realise Debian's dynamic
mapping is harder to code than using a static xkb-config/kbd table, or dumping
this table and only supporting the layouts that appear under the same name in
both systems, but the other solutions only work if layout authors bother to
write two layouts (one for xkb-config and one for kbd) each time they do a
change, and they've voted with their feet a long time ago (and additionally
even when one did this it took months to get add a new line in the mapping
table used by anaconda – great way to make people not bother)
"And I've not seen any of the people advocating against the Debian solution
volunteer to write all the kbd tables the alternative required either."
Can we follow Debian's lead here and set up dynamic mapping so we can support
our users on the console?
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[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 827187] Fedora 17 (and 13-14-15-16) no setup correctly /etc/sysconfig/i18n after installation
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827187
--- Comment #6 from Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> I can't reproduce for default Spanish DVD install.
Explicitly:
1. I did a fresh install in Spanish from F17 x86_64 DVD.
2. (I chose Spanish on the first screen of the anaconda installer)
3. Spanish install completes and I reboot
4. Firstboot and then gdm running normally in Spanish
5. /etc/sysconfig/i18n contains LANG="es_ES.UTF-8".
No problem.
The Live "issue" is well-known but not new as you say.
Unfortunately LXDE and XFCE do not support changing language
and nor does gdm these days. :-(
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