Re: [Morphix-devel] Internationalisation..

[Jose C. G. S. <jo...@ja...>]

On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 06:11:16PM +0200, Robert Ribnitz wrote:
> Hello List,
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> I came up with a rather pailness way to handle internationalisation, at=
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> lease as fgar as keyboards are concerned.
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> Linux stores the keyboard mapping i the following file:
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> /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
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> and the layout for X11 is in
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> /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
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> now, if we took those two files out of the Base/BaseX system, and made=20
> them modules, adapting keyboards would be childs' play (just load the=20
> swedish-keyboard-minimodule if you need a swedish keyboard)
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> Of ocurse, this odes not yet allow to ask at runtime, but that could=20
> ocme later

  This is something that Metadistros loader is aiming to allow, asking
  some of such questions at init time if the person who has made the
  distro thinks that it's necesary.

  I think that this is a nice thing to have.

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  Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
     js...@de...