Patch for the macedonian XKB layout

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Dec 7 07:09:31 PST 2004


On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 15:51 +0100, Jaroslaw Gorny wrote:
> Please, forgive for I'm a bit off-topic, but I've got to
> say: Damjan, You're right.
> 
> I also vote for rejecting this change.
> Why?:
> 1. Keyboard layouts have nothing to do with the countries (or at least
> not always). For example I use 'polish' layout, and there's no need to
> call it "polish(Poland)"
> 
> 2. The name of the country is FYROM _only_ because Greek governmant
> demand it. There's a province in Greece called "Aegeian Macedonia", and
> they think, that only this province should be called "Macedonia" and
> nothing else.

That's what you think.  I'm not saying you're wrong or right, but there
are no doubt people in Greece that think your country should not be
called Macedonia.  So it comes down to opinions, yay.

> After Macedonia (which was a part of Yugoslavia) proclamated
> independence, Greece even convinced UN to not affiliate this country, so
> they just had to change the name.
> 
> So, please, do not call this kbd layout FYROM...

Please, guys, let's not have this argument on xorg@, OK?  It doesn't
belong here.



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