Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ubiquity
In the installer, when you pick Finnish for your keyboard layout, you are presented with a list of alternatives: Finland Finland - Eliminate dead keys Finland - Kotoistus Finland - Macintosh Finland - Northern Saami All of these except "Kotoistus" are likely understandable to a majority of the target audience. However, the "Kotoistus" layout was unfamiliar to me. It turns out that this is a project to replace the traditional (originally Swedish SIS) standard keyboard layout with a modernized, multilingual layout -- essentially backwards-compatible, but augmented to cater for the requirements of local minority languages, as well as enabling communications in most Latin-based European writing systems. Judging from their web pages at http://www.csc.fi/sivut/kotoistus/nappaimisto_htm (bilingual page -- scroll down for English version) and in particular the overview in http://www.csc.fi/sivut/kotoistus/fi_kbspec_en_luonnos06.pdf (in English) this is still a work in progress, but they wish for the layout to be widely tested in practice in order to eventually freeze the specification. The PDF suggests "Nordic International" as a good name for the proposed layout; perhaps this could be added to the keyboard picker list (i.e. change "Finland - Kotoistus" to "Finland - Kotoistus (Nordic International)". Sorry if ubiquity is the wrong place for this bug. ** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Please add an explanation to Finnish "Kotoistus" keyboard in installer https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
