On Sunday 20 January 2002 04:37 pm, you wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Arash Zeini wrote:
> > However we need to clarify one question about "naming conventions". Is
> > there any convention on how to name keyboard layouts for XFree86? The kxb
> > file for Farsi has had the name ir up to now and the language is called
> > Iranian. I would like to change this to fa and Farsi, since this is the
> > correct name for the language used. Iranian refers to a group of
> > languages and should not be used to refer to Farsi; it is also unfair
> > towards other memebers of the family of Iranian languages. Is this OK?
> > Roozbeh?
>
> It's really the country name, IR for Iran. Since the layout is not a
> general Persian (Farsi) layout, but the National Iranian keyboard layout.
> There is no "en" keyboard, but you can see "us", "uk", "ca", ...
>
> roozbeh
I know, but IR refers to a country with many more languages than Farsi and
the keyboard layout clearly refers to the language of Farsi. The same way it
wouldn't be correct to use IN or something related for India as there are
many more languages spoken in India. That is why the keyboard for Bengali
(work in progress) e.g. is called ben (I am not really sure about the name)
and not in.
Arash
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