XKB layout names (fwd)

[Katsaloulis Panagiotis]

Akoloy9oun diafora mail poy phra sxetika me to post gia ta ellhnika sta X.


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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 22:25:35 -0400
From: David Dawes <dawes at xfree86.org>
To: Katsaloulis Panagiotis <grad0307 at di.uoa.gr>
Cc: i18n at xfree86.org
Subject: XKB layout names

[I'm cc'ing this to i18n at xfree86.org to see what feedback there is about
the xkb layout names.]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 02:17:04AM +0200, Katsaloulis Panagiotis wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I am writing on behalf of the greek i18n team, in order to properly
>support the greek language under Linux/X.
>(i18ngr at hellug.gr)
>
>
>We have developed a greek keyboard layout and Compose map, but in the time
>being someone has already posted similar files, which was already inserted
>in X 4.0.2.
>
>1 We have noticed some problems though: the language was defined as "gr"
>instead of the proper "el"

There's some inconsistency with the XKB layout names, but I think most
are named by country rather than by language.  It'd be good if we could
make them more consistent.

David
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