A brief purist's rant on keymaps and keysyms: X11 keymaps were originally merely meant to represent what symbols are printed/engraved on the keycaps of the keyboard hardware used (see Appendix A of the X11 protocol specification).
Is the proposed Urdu keyboard layout already used by any keyboard manufacturer, or is this forseen in the immediate future? Can you send us a photo of a production prototype of that keyboard? I am asking, because I doubt somewhat that either XFree86 or X.Org are particularly interested in becoming a repository for "invisible convenience keymaps" that are not actually reflecting the symbols visible on real-world hardware. People can always configure such convenience additions privately using xmodmap. Maintaining a repository of personal convenience keymaps sounds like a very openended endeavor. Perhaps, there should be a requirement to provide a high-resolution photograph of a real keyboard along with each keymap that gets into the X11 distribution? That would also simplify tremendously the identification of which keymap belongs to which hardware, and it would help us a bit at least to weed out all the non-existing phantasy keyboards. Markus -- Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__ _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
