On 8/16/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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? >
Actually its more of a presentation issue.. how the keyboard selection tool is dealing with it. for Xorg part... its to be either specified in xorg.conf (in XkbLayout ) or by setxkbmap -layout 'in(Hindi),in(ben)' etc.. In KDE the selection is first select the country then select your language map. (but since default is set to devanagari... if no selection of language is made it defaults to it). Karunakar _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
