Re: urdu keymap

hi,
  yes i also fully agree with Sergey. What definition Markus gave us 
about keymaps is of old times. And these definition may change to 
facilitate the goals without changing the concepts.

There may never exist a hardware keyboard for Urdu, because mostly 
english hardware version is used there as also in other countries. So 
responsibles are active in research for standards (crulp.org is the 
authority i mentioned earlier), and a common user will not wait how long 
it will take that a company produces one. There are many linux projects 
related with Urdu waiting for such standards.

Regarding the progress of internationalization there should not be any 
requirement for real photographs. You cant make many countries dependant 
on companies to accomplish their normal day tasks and limit their use of 
computers.

regards
hussnain


> Hi
> 
> I would disagree with you, Mark. There can countries/languages/layouts 
> which were never implemented in hardware - and still it makes sense to 
> have corresponding layouts (or at least variants). I would not bound the 
> word "keymap" to the politics of the keyboard vendors (some countries 
> can just be too small/insiginficant for them, some languages considered 
> as secondary etc). For example, I never seen any keyboard with the Irish 
> layout - but still think this layout can exist, even if there was no 
> physical keyboard. Similar, I am not sure there was some keyboard with 
> the Russian phonetic layout - but AFAIK, the number of people using it 
> is large enough to include it.
> 
>  > convenience additions privately using xmodmap. Maintaining a repository
>  > of personal convenience keymaps sounds like a very openended endeavor.
> I think it really is. The only thing is that maintainers should be 
> careful and picky about inclusion of the multiple related keymaps.
> 
> Sergey
> 
> PS I am using both words "layout" and "keymap" because I see you want to 
> ban any non-hardware-based set of symbols.
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