On 7/10/06, Simos Xenitellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > How do we change from country codes to language codes? That is actually > a bit tough. The layout codes come transparently from upstream, Xorg > (xkeyboard-config). This would add some extra work to Sergey and would > rekindle the discussion in the XKB list on whether to use country codes > or language codes. For this to work, there should be a layer (=list) > that translates keyboard layout codes to language codes.
For the backend, it makes most sense to use country codes, or perhaps a combination of country code and language code. Most of the standard layouts are *national* layouts that originate from back when people used typewriters, and there was not much of cross-country standardization going on. For example, the Swiss French layout is different from the layout used in France, and then again, that one is probably different from the layout that French speaking people in Canada use. However, that is of course a seperate issue from what should be displayed in the UI. In that case, I think a display of language code meets most user expectations, and this is also in fact what Windows does in this case. Christian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
