Re: Changes for xkb/symbos/pc/br

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:13:52 +0600 (TSK)
Ivan Pascal <[email protected]> wrote:

>    Hi,
> 
> > One question: the use of pc/[language code] will be the standard in
> > XFree86 4.4?
> 
> Yes.
> If you are talking about [language code] for keyboard map name nothing
> is changed there yet.  There were proposals discussed here for new
> keyboard maps that implied name changes of some maps but that work
> still isn't complete.

Yes, I read the discussion in the list archive. I do not agree totally
about the Country/Language configuration, but I will not discuss in this
thread ;)

> If you mean the 'pc' directory for XKB symbols maps it's right too. 
> You see that the maps in symbols/pc differ from ones in symbols
> directory.  The maps were rewritten to allow combining them easy in
> one multi_layout keymap.  But existent maps were left for
> compatibility and as a fallback for the case of possible issues with
> new maps.  Thus 'old' maps are kept in symbols directory and new maps
> are in symbols/pc.  (The name 'pc' was chosen because other vendor
> keyboard maps have own directories and it would be right to place in
> the symbols itself only pieces that are common for all maps.)

OK, I have noted that the maps are different, and I suppose they are in
accordance with what you wrote in "The XKB internals" (I should confess
I couldn't understand this text very well...).

I would like to try the new maps in pc directory; all I need is to
change the XF86Config from:
        Option      "XkbLayout" "br"

to:
        Option      "XkbLayout" "pc/br"

?

And I am still using 4.3.0 (I have just downloaded the Xetc.tgz of 4.4
beta); do these maps work on 4.3.0?

> BTW. I added us(intl) submap (i.e. a variant of US keymap) making it
> similar to "MS Windows US International keymap" as much as possible. 
> If one complain on us_intl map you can suggest to try this new one. :)
 
Great :)

BTW, the Japanese map is missing in the "pc" directory...

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