Quite serius political "bug" in Fedora 18

[Adam Williamson]

On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 09:56 -0800, Richard Vickery wrote:
> It is extremely important to be sensitive to global cultures. War is
> very hard on everyone, and, to make this short rather becoming an
> essay on the depth and length of its affects, supporting this is the
> least we can do.
> 
> I'd we do super it, we might get a bigger user-base as a result of or
> care and attention to their horrific consequences of that war.
> 
> On Jan 6, 2013 9:17 AM, "valent.turkovic at gmail.com"
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>         This is much more that a software bug.
>         
>         
>         This could be a really serious bug because of it's political
>         weight. Currently there is only Croatian keyboard listed with
>         English keys but it says that this is "Serbo-Croatian"
>         keyboard. 
>         
>         
>         Maybe you don't understand the weight of this but Croatia
>         fought war for independence 20 years ago so that it could have
>         it culture and language as it's own and not part of some be
>         forceably par of some other culture (Serbo-Croatian led
>         Yugoslavia).
>         
>         
>         Thanks for your understanding.
>         
>         
>         https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883555

Please don't top-post.

This is neither new nor, really, a bug in Fedora. The layout in question
comes from upstream xkb:

/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us

// Serbian charecters added as third level symbols to US keyboard
layout.

partial alphanumeric_keys
xkb_symbols "hbs" {

  name[Group1]= "Serbo-Croatian (US)";

  include "us"

You can see that this is present in current upstream master here:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/tree/symbols/us

It was present in F17, and offered in the GNOME keyboard configurator,
and no-one appears to have started any wars over it. It's almost
certainly present in other distributions too.

The real bug is that anaconda is somehow not picking up the actual
'Croatian' layout (GNOME finds it fine), which is weird, but really just
a bug.

If you think the name of this layout should be adjusted, file it at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config .
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