On 16-Aug-07, at 11:24 AM, G Karunakar wrote:

>> this 'indian' bug has been around in ubuntu for quite some time now -
>> why dont the ubuntu fans do something about it?
>>
>
> its not really  a bug &  neither ubuntu specific!.. thats just because
> in recent versions of Xorg , the keymaps were organized country wise (
> earlier it was language wise!)... so all maps for Indic scripts are in
> one map file 'in' ...  in this devanagari one has be set to default -
> (one of the maps in a file has to be default)... so its available as
> 'India',  while other maps could accessed by specifiying the variant
> too   in(guj) , in(bolnagri) etc..

the explanation is not convincing - somebody goofed. My ibook doesnt  
have his problem - it has two devnagiri keyboards, two for gujarati,  
two for gurmurkhi and 3 for tamil - all correctly named. So why cant  
Xorg do the same - or has no one complained to them?


-- 
regards

Kenneth Gonsalves
Associate, NRC-FOSS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/




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