retitle 280122 Translations for mac/usb keyboards are confusing reassign 280122 console-data severity 280122 important tags 280122 l10n d-i thanks
On Sunday 07 November 2004 13:22, Fabrice LORRAIN wrote: > Using > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/2004-11-06/netboot/netboot.t >ar.gz on a Dell Optiplex Gx280 + Dell USB keyboard. > > Booting with linux26 + french language + France gives the Macintosh USB > keyboard menu, which is wrong. > > Booting with the 2.4 kernel or linux26 + english + UK + British English > doesn't show this problem. Hmmm. In fact you are being shown exactly the same list of keymaps. The confusion is caused by the translations, which imply that the keymaps are for 'macintosh usb' keyboards. In fact the keymaps in the list are suitable for _both_ 'macintosh' and 'usb' keyboards. As you have an usb-keyboard, the list that is shown _is_ correct for you. Examples ======== English list French list --------------------------------------------------------------------- Belgian Macintish USB belge German Macintish USB allemand Latin-1 German Macintish USB allemand Latin-1 sans touches mortes American English Macintish USB pour les États-Unis English list Dutch list --------------------------------------------------------------------- Belgian Belgisch Macintosh usb-toetsenbord (mac-usb-be) German Duits Macintosh usb-toetsenbord (mac-usb-de-latin1) German Duits Macintosh usb-toetsenbord zonder dode toetsen American English Amerikaans Engelse Macintosh usb-toetsenbord So AFAICT the same list is shown with two different headers for installations on i386 and powerpc: "Keymap to use for a USB keyboard:" "Keymap to use for a Macintosh keyboard:" This means that, to avoid confusion, the indications 'Macintosh' and 'USB' should be removed for all options in the translations for the listitems. For the Dutch translation, it would probably be best to also remove the names of the keymaps that are shown between parentheses. Note: In the English list the difference between the two options for German should be made clear.
