On Tuesday 12 November 2002 05:49, David Dawes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 09:35:08AM +0330, Arash Zeini wrote: > >On Tuesday 29 October 2002 22:40, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > >> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Aryan Ameri wrote: > >> > I noticed that the Farsi (fa-IR) keyboard layout that comes with the > >> > latest version of XFree86 is a not a fully functional layout; I also > >> > checked your CVS and the same applies to the layout in the CVS. The > >> > problem with this keyboard is that the upper row of keyboard character > >> > (including numbers and parentheses and etc) is not Farsi at all (when > >> > you press these keys, English numbers appear instead of Farsi ones), > >> > and IMHO this is a pretty big issue, specially as your keyboard layout > >> > is the one that is shipped with leading GNU/Linux distros. Has anyone > >> > written a complete Farsi layout, or should I write one & send them to > >> > you? > >> > >> A complete one is available at XFree86's CVS, with all your concerns > >> addressed at: > >> > >> xc/programs/xkbcomp/symbols/pc/ > >> > >> which will replace the main one in the due course. > > > >This assumes the multi-layout keyboard map support is going to replace the > >'old' method soon. > >Is there a deadline or time frame for this? > > The feature freeze for XFree86 4.3.0 has just been announced (30 Nov > 2002). I'm hoping that as many maps as possible will be converted to > the multi-layout format in time for this release. Ideally I'd like to > consider the layouts that aren't multi-layout friendly to be deprecated, > and I'm not planning to accept further changes to them. > > Ivan, is there anything else you think needs to be done here? > > David
Hi David, I will be out of town for one week from tomorrow. I case there is anything needed from our side, please do get in touch with me or Arash Bijanzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> But there shouldn't be anything related to the "ir" layout. Thanks, Arash -- The FarsiKDE Project www.farsikde.org _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
