Re: Fwd: Arabic Language code confict (related to: KDE 3 Language codes)

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at accessme dot com>]

Hi Andy, 

On Thursday 10 January 2002 20:12, Andy Rysin wrote:
> Well, the names of the Xkb layouts usually were named after countries
> they used in, so that's why 'ar' takes flag from Argentina. Second
> question is which flag it suppose to take if you say it's used in 26+
> contries??
> If you can work it out I can put a line into kxkb to pick up the
> right one. We've got one workaround for Greek - using
> "l10n/gr/flag.png" if layout is "el".

Well, there is a flag to use for the Arabic Language, that is the Arab League 
flag, we agreed upon it internally in Arabeyes ..  but where this flag should 
be in the "l10n/" we are not sure yet .. The good news here that it can be 
worked out, and we will try hard to follow up with you "KDE" and the XFree86 
people to make the needed changes really soon ..


>
> > 	The other issue with the 'ar' keymap is that it needs to be
> > defined in kxkb rules.cpp file, and a bug report reagrding it had
>
> been issued.
> ... and closed actually :)
> I added the line to specify encoding and default group for 'ar' some
> time ago. I think if you reported it you should have got closing
> notification. :(

Yes, and I got a notification of it, Thanks..

> If you mean about adding a name to 'ar' like 'Arabic' - this should
> be done in /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst - not in kxkb, there's only
> one line in xfree86.lst doing that - for "Bengali" but I am going to
> remove that, as far as X problems should not be solved in kxkb (if
> they easily can be solved in X).

We are aware of the needed changes in X11/xkb/rules/xfree86.lst , and the 
X11/xkb/keymap/xfree86 ..
Please have a look at :

http://www.arabeyes.org/cvsweb/projects/external/xkb/

and assure me that this is all what I need .. I addressed the i18n at xfree86 
dot org about it.. but didn't get any response yet, can you please help me to 
know who is the xkb person to contact directly ?

Thanks
-- 
Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
Amman - Jordan
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