Re: [AD] CVS: allegro/resource/keyboard ch.cfg,1.1,1.2cz.cfg,1.1,1.2fr.cfg,1.1,1.2 ru.cfg,1.1,1.2 se.cfg,1.1,1.2

[Stepan Roh <stepan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

> Hey, nice subject line :)
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:07:30PM +0200, Stepan Roh wrote:
> > > -keyboard_name = Sweden
> > > +keyboard_name = Sverige
> >
> > What is the policy for those names? "Sverige" is not in English, right? So
> > there should be country names in their native forms?
>
> Yes, the native form should be more helpful than the english form.

There are no russian or chinese or japanese glyphs neither in the standard
font nor in the setup font :-)

> > Why not "Czech"
> > keyboard, "Swedish" keyboard, "Russian" keyboard etc. Why country names?
>
> Maybe I can give you an example: while spanish may be spoken in lot's of
> countries, the keyboards sold in those countries might not have the same
> layout that the ones sold in Spain, so selecting a "spanish keyboard"
> doesn't help them very much I guess, but I can't speak for myself, so I
> am just guessing.

But in that case, those keyboards will be for example "Venezuelan" :-)
 etc. Just like US and UK keyboards. And it's also strange to have
"Keyboard: Czech Republic".

> Maybe a good idea would be to see what other software installers do
> and copy them?

KDE2 has translated keyboard layout names in form of "Swedish" keyboard
layout, "Czech" keyboard layout and so on.

Have a nice day.

Stepan Roh