Re: Arabic and Persian keyboard mappings

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at cs dot toronto dot edu>]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Christian Perrier wrote:

> After a few searches, I found the BIcon project on Arabeyes website.
>
> Among a lot of other stuff, it includes keyboard mapping files for an
> Arabic and a Persian keyboard (keymap/arabic.map.gz and
> keymap/ir.map.gz).
>
> Debian's console-data (the data used by console-tools) currently do
> not include any Arabic or Persian keyboard mappings....which make our
> current Arabic and Persian translations a bit useless....
>
> Is someone around able to tell me that, yes, I should ask for adding
> these files to the Debian keyboard mapping set?

Yes please.

> (copy to Behdad who is the author of the Persian keyboard mapping
> file and to Alastair, who maintains the console-data Debian package)

The Persian keyboard is not the best possible, but does the job
quite well.  Letting me know the way to update it later is much
appreciated.

Thankx
--behdad
  behdad.org