Re: XFree86 and xkb

[Karim Elaagouby <karim at elaagouby dot net>]

A Salam,

"ar" is taken, ok.
How representing Arabic with something more unique
like "aa" which stands for the "real" first letter
"ain" in the word Al Arabia! 
And instead of a flag we could use an icon that simply
has
the "ain"  in it. The arabic calligraphy is beautiful,
and we should it show it off.

Just a suggestion.

Karim 
 

 



--- Jihad Daoud <jihdao-6 at sm dot luth dot se> wrote:
> Hi,
> (I am new to the list and the lazy me have not been
> reading the archived back log, tell me when I
> mention stuff you been through already!)
> 
> Was looking around for more stuff about the subject.
> Using setxkbmap you can select the keyboard mapping
> you want to use.
> I use "setxkbmap se" for Swedish, it's language
> based and not country based. In our case it should
> be ar (AR, ar_AR or even Arabic if you want).
> setxkbmap will first look in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst to find out
> if there is a rule for the keyboard language
> mapping.
> Then it will go to
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 to check out
> which keyboard you have.
> Then it expects a file in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols, in
> case of Swedish it's "se".
> 
> So far nothing mentioned about countries and "ar"
> does not exist, no conflict is there with Argentina!
> 
> We start fixing XF86 and then move on to the fancy
> stuff.
> KDE and GNOME use ar.png for Argentinan flag! It's a
> lot of fun to add all the Arabic country flags and
> submit them to KDE and GNOME people but I think that
> we need the AR.png (or what ever, but not ar.png) to
> represent Arabic and not a specific country, hey we
> might become one country again someday!
> 
> In summary: XF86 xkb is language based. ar for
> Arabic. Need to be added.
>   KDE and GNOME kbd selector are country based! We
> might consider making an exception for Arabs and
> assume that they belong to one country and let the
> Arab League's flag goes there (if so, come up with
> the two letter abbreviation that will do and is not
> occupied by any country, Arab nation maybe (an) or
> Arab league (al, but I bet that Albania got this
> one!).
> 
> It's new year eve and can't start testing (actually
> have to wait for two week or so) to see how
> xkbsel_gnome_applet, the keyboard selector, would
> behave (using GNOME as I said before!)
> 
> Have fun tonight.
> -- 
> Jihad Daoud
>
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Karim Elaagouby

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