Il giorno 18/ago/2014, alle ore 05:38, Stefan Esser <s...@freebsd.org> ha scritto:
> Am 17.08.2014 um 23:40 schrieb Pedro Giffuni: >> >> Il giorno 17/ago/2014, alle ore 16:09, Stefan Esser <s...@freebsd.org >> <mailto:s...@freebsd.org>> ha scritto: >>> Therefore, what you'd name "es_LA" (or es-la) is now latinamerican >>> (it could be "latinamerican-es" if you wanted to make the language >>> visible in the name). The country comes first, and if there is no >>> country code (e.g. because the keymap is used in many countries), >>> a longer name is used. >> >> That would, IMHO, be fine. What I dislike is that all other files are using >> two letter codes and meanwhile the latinamerican thing has the long >> name :-P. > > Ahh, I see. Well, this long name is meant to stand out when looking at > the keymap files. If you use kbdmap to select a keymap, then it does > not matter how long the name is. And if you select the file by name > from within the keymaps directory, then a short name could easily be > overlooked. > > And se-la would mean "Spain using the latinamerican language" ;-) > since the first part is the country, not the language. > I should have been clearer: I meant la-es would be fine. > But you are not suffering alone: there is "centraleuropean.iso", too. > Funny thing is almost all latin-american countries speak Spanish but in Spain there is Catalan and other languages as well so when looking at the directories (ls -la) the keyboards will look unordered. Sorting the keyboards by language would be more natural, but I guess that as an exercise for the installer. >> FWIW, I tried to change that in syscons but the reduced nomenclature >> came too late and changing names caused too much trouble in >> sysinstall.. > > I thought it was a good time since nearly all files needed to change > anyway, because of the removal of the encoding from the names. > > Names in syscons are probably encoded in lots of rc.conf files, and > changing them might have been a big POLA. > Yes, we renamed the latin-american keyboard once (before I was a commiter) and the related bug report remained open for some years. Pedro. > one thing that I'm thinking about is whether we should have an > optional keymap_sc and keymap_vt in rc.conf, which allows to have > different keymap files when running under SYSCONS vs. NEWCONS. > > This would be easy to implement, with keymap still being used, > unless the more specific variable for the console driver used has > an override. > > I think I'll just implement this for -CURRENT and wait for opinions, > whether this should be merged to -STABLE ... > > Best regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
