Bryce,

The issue is not on Mali, the issue is on Malayalam which breaks Mali.

>From a user's standpoint, after installing oneiric, if you choose any
Mali (country) or Bambara (language) layout, you will get Malayalam
(language). It is easy to distinguish as Malayalam uses a non-latin
script.

The causes I've identified in the past were a conflict of codes and filenames:
Mali (country) has an ISO3166-1 code of ML
XKB convention is that layouts are stored in per-country files named after the 
ISO3166-1 code (thus ml)
Malayalam (language) has an ISO 639-1 code of ML

According to upstream the problem is not with the ml layout (to fix the
problem locally, I rename ml to mali and change its name in evdev.xml)

Looking at evdev.xml in oneiric, I am not sure how to resolve the
problem as Malayalam no longer makes reference to ML but only to MAL. I
imagine the problem still lies in code conversion but I can't check as
freedesktop website is down for me at the moment.

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Mali country codes:
ISO 3166-1 Alpha-3    MLI
ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2    ML
Malayalam language codes:
ISO 639-1       ml
ISO 639-2       mal
ISO 639-3       mal
Bambara language codes:
ISO 639-1       bm
ISO 639-2       bam
ISO 639-3       bam

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