Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2008 8:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dave Miner wrote:
>>>> Screenshot 03: First screen of Indy2 LiveCD running in SXDE4,
>>>> selecting keyboard. (This screen has a very serious political
>>>> ramification, I have submitted a bug report, someone better pay some
>>>> attention, or at least not show Indiana to any Chinese officials.)
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the reminder, I've transferred that bug to Bugster so that we
>>> can get kbd -s fixed.
>> I must be missing the bug there - clearly that's a list of regional keyboard
>> variants, not national ones, since there are no nations of Latin America or
>> French Canada.
>
> The bug here is China's political sensitivities regarding Taiwan, that
> and the selection really isn't done in the correct way. It's being
> done based on nationality instead of language.
But it's not a selection of language, but keyboard layouts - and those vary
by nation, region, and/or language - Sun really does sell keyboards in Taiwan
with a different layout than mainland China, and needs some way to refer to
those differently.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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