On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:57 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: >> FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be willing >> to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreciate >> the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY keyboard layout means French, >> that JIS means Japanese, that QWERTZ probably indicates German / Swiss / >> Hungarian, etc. > > I thought I'd mention that OS X takes an interesting approach to this. > When you plug in a keyboard it doesn't recognize, it does a little > dance where it tells you to press certain keys (e.g., "Press the key > to the right of the left Shift key," with a little graphic to help you > understand which key it means) and from the results it infers the > layout.
Indeed, yes-- that's KeyboardTypeSection, part of Setup Assistant.app used to perform initial configuration of a new system. While I think it makes a good example, I don't want to evangelize stuff from $REALJOB too strongly. :-) Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
