and sorry, I forgot to repeat : the layout needs anyhow to be fixed as it does not longer reflect the official alphabet, and is remote fro the other current implementations for Windows and for Mac aligned on the SIL recommendations. See the files I posted.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xkeyboard-config in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1299829 Title: keyboard for Bambara not usable : name in evdev.xml points to Malayalam. Status in central project for keyboard configuration: Confirmed Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I am dong research in africa, languages, I have little knowledge about Linux/Ubuntu. I have been implementing bambara keyboards for Windows and Mac OSX (with Ukelele). A year ago I noticed that I could not use the keyboard for Bambara, apparently it was giving access to a strange asian language. Since then, my Ubuntu computer is updated regularly, it now runs Ubuntu 13.10 I spent a lot of time yesterday, I share what I found : 1) the <name> in rules/edvdev.xml for this keyboard is "ml" this code is actually the one for a language called Malayalam, spoken in Kerala, south of India. Nothing to do with West Africa, and it's this language alphabet which is displayed when a user selects the Bambara keyword. I changed it to "bm", which is the ISO 639-1 code. (I changed also the ! layout section in evdev.lst) 2) the "ml" file in symbols is actually for Bambara! Some of the keys defined are obsolete, it does not align with the keys used by other SIL.org keyboard, but it is for bambara. I copied this file into a file called "bm" and renamed "ml" as "ml-old" I updated the bm file to align it to the SIL standards. This fixed it... only partially : the Malayalam keyboard does not display any longer when I select Bambara. I does now display the bambara keyboard. But : it still displays the one defined in the old "ml" file, not the one I corrected in the "bm" file!!! I messed up, restarted several times, to no avail : still the old obsolete keyboard. The only thing that works is that I can now use the keyboard variant which is defined in my "bm" as "French (Mali, alternative)" with my new keys definitions. When I add the basic "Bambara" keyboard, it displays the old layout. In the drop down list of keyboard at the top right of the screen, it is there... but greyed out. "French (Mali, alternative)" is OK for my personal use, but my objective is to make it available generally as "Bambara". Please help. Of cours I'm OK to supply the "bm" file Jean-Jacques, Paris To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1299829/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
