[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 668084] Cannot install with a Canadian French Dvorak keyboard layout

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--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> 2012-03-12 10:23:21 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I am assuming this is still true for current Fedora releases?

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.

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