On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:49:13PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: [...] > BTW, a note on organization of files. It seems to me that the upstream went > generalizing, and created a new file "cs" (country code for Serbia and > Montenegro), and then went on to base ba, hr and si on it because the > layouts are mostly equal.
Absolutely, this has been discussed last year, mostly in this thread http://listserv.bat.ru/xkb/Message/708.html > While such a condensation was probably a decent idea since it makes the > files more logical, it was probably the root of this whole problem. > Since cs(cyralpha) includes its own version of level3 which is more like > English, this change propagated into hr, si, ba so that they now started > to have AltGr'ed keys like on an English keyboard, which is incorrect. Right, it looks like we did not check carefully enough and some unwanted changes have been introduced. > Another problem cropped up earlier this year, when the state union of > Serbia and Montenegro ceased to exist. This made their provisional country > code (cs) defunct, too. So the file name will need to be changed anyway. > > The commonality in keyboards between Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian and > Serbian (Latin) alphabets can be grouped under the linguistically recognized > grouping called the Western branch of the South Slavic languages. Perhaps > the common file should be called "wsslavic"? Ok, I will send your suggestion to upstream when the cs layout is renamed. > On related note, the optimization/generalization should also encompass > cz(basic) and sk(basic) which differ in only six keys, and could be > similarly merged. Thanks for the tip, I will forward it upstream. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
