Public bug reported:
In 2005 the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic adopted the official
keyboard layouts for Kyrgyz language. Unfortunanately, the text of the
Governmental Regulation is available only in Kyrgyz and Russian
languages (http://www.kyrgyz.us/files/jobo.pdf). However, I will try to
explain the most important nuances in the document which require change
of default keyboard layout in Ubuntu (and generally Linux systems) for
the Kyrgyz Language.
Current layout for Kyrgyz language in Linux systems has been written by
Russian programmers on the basis of default layout of Russian Language.
Currently, it is a simply copy-pasted Russian layout with characters
specific to Kyrgyz language put to third level access keyboards. Kyrgyz
Cyrillic layout has some extra letters (Cyrillic_u_straight,
Cyrillic_U_straight, Cyrillic_en_descender, Cyrillic_EN_descender,
Cyrillic_o_bar, Cyrillic_O_bar) specific to Kyrgyz language, which
are used more often in comparison with some characters specific to
Russian language (Cyrillic_ya, Cyrillic_YA, Cyrillic_yu,
Cyrillic_YU, Cyrillic_hardsign, Cyrillic_HARDSIGN,
Cyrillic_shcha, Cyrillic_SHCHA, Cyrillic_tse,
Cyrillic_TSE, Cyrillic_io, Cyrillic_IO, Cyrillic_softsign,
Cyrillic_SOFTSIGN, Cyrillic_ie, Cyrillic_IE). I fact last
letters specific to Russian language are non-existent in Kyrgyz language
and are used only to write Russian words. The underline purpose of the
Regulation was to eliminate non-ergonomic and uncomfortable use of
Russian keyboard layout for Kyrgyz language and to come up with first
official Kyrgyz layout. The regulation was developed during years of
2004 and 2005 by the Agency of Science and Intellectual Property under
the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic with participation of UNDP and
Soros Fund.
Proposed keyboard layout for Ubuntu offers the exactly same Standard and
Phonetic Kyrgyz Keyboard layouts which were presented by the Regulation.
It positions three specific to Kyrgyz language characters to the first
level of keyboard (direct access without pressing any additional keys)
and saves some specific to Russian language keys to less frequently used
keys.
Modified in Ubuntu 7.10 files are:
1) /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/kg
2) /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml
3) /etc/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Kyrgyz keyboard layout simply repeats Russian layout and does not reflect the
latest layout officially adopted by the Kyrgyz Government
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198655
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