Keysym additions.

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Ven 22 septembre 2006 01:04, Keith Packard a écrit :

> If you really have keys that say "Chinese (language)" on them, is there
> some reason not to report that correctly?
>
> ISO639-2 defines somewhere around 420 languages; that gives us well
> defined names and reasonable semantics as well. No Klingon though; we
> may have to make something up for that.

However you should remember there is no 1-1 mapping between languages or
even locales and actual keyboard maps :

1. some countries have several keyboard maps for historical reasons (mac,
windows, typewriter, old_standard, new_standard, dvorak, FLOSS enhanced
map...)

2. and even assuming a 1-1 locale/keyboard map mapping, what you really
need to take into account is main_locale->target language couples. Someone
whose main keyboard is azerty will allways prefer to use azertified
variants of other keyboard maps, even if the countries speaking the other
language he needs chose a qwerty core.

This is especially true if you target young kids. They actually see the
utter madness of switching a and q or moving the dot around just to access
that diacriticalized letter they need to write in another langage.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot