On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:54:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There will be a new kbd release soon, mostly because
> 2.6 has some changes.
Do you have webpage or cvs for that package? I would like to see "work
in progress", since I think it's time remove those keymaps that use
obsolete ISO-646 encodings.
[historical background: ISO-646 is a group of several 7-bit national
ASCII variations where some symbols where replaced with letters used
to write european languages. Like finnish charset ISO-646.FI replaced
ascii's [\]{|} with ������. Also other languages used similar but bit
different encodings like german needed to replace some character in
ascii for their letters �������. This convention disappeared in late
'80 along with dumb terminals (also newer terminals used 8-bit codes
like DEC multinational, ancestor for latin1) ]
I have a problem understanding why linux keymap "fi" (and several
others) still use those 7-bit codes and proper keymap is named
"fi-latin1" (which actually uses latin9 symbols for euro and several
other characters) There seems to be same problem with several other
languages.
So, it would be less confusing if current, latin/unicode keymap would
be fi.kmap and those 7-bit keymaps named fi-old.kmap or removed.
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