Justin B Rye, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 01:45:48 +0100, a écrit : > > Irish > > (I'm surprised Irish needs its own keyboard layout...)
It adds dotted consonants. > > Northern Norwegian > > Are you sure you mean "Northern"? The two standard forms of > Norwegian - Nynorsk and Bokmål - are split east/west rather than > north/south. If either of them is more "northern" I would have > thought it was Bokmål, except that surely that would have been the > *first* Norwegian entry on this list, not a late addition... More precisely, it's the no(smi) variant, marked "Northern Saami" in console-setup, maybe I should use that instead. > > We can typically use the adjective for the country and/or for the > > language: it happens that sometimes we need to designate the country > > (because there are various keyboards for the same language, depending on > > the country), and sometimes we need to designate the language (because > > there are several languages in the country, and thus various keyboard), > > but I'm wondering for the case when there is just one widespread > > language in just one country. > > In theory it's even more confusing than this, because strictly > speaking it's not a matter of languages so much as writing systems. Indeed, the Indian case is an example of this. > > For the record, the current list (a mixture of language and country > > adjectives) is: > > > > American English > > Belarusian > > Belgian > > Brazilian > > British English > > (The difference between en_US and en_GB keyboards has nothing to do > with the language or even spelling-system differences - it's mostly a > matter of LC_MONETARY. Indeed :) > > Latin American > > Do Brazilians get a three-way choice of "Brazilian", "Latin American", > and "Portuguese"? Latin American is mostly a qwerty layout with extra mappings to type es/pt, so it's mostly for use in the US. Brazilian is for pt_BR and Portuguese is for pt_PT. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110411082137.ga4...@const.bordeaux.inria.fr
