Talk:Localization

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I've added Icelandic to the list of languages. - gthb

[edit] language-centric

Wouldn't it be more convenient to make this TIP more language-centric, rather than application-centric? I know that it will be more redundant then but if you want to quickly lookup all settings for your language, you wouldn't have to jump so much.

I recently made this article yet more application-centric, merging the language sub-sections. I think this appropriately minimizes redundancy, allows for comparison to other languages, and makes it more organised and compact. The last bit, I hope makes the jumping around easier. --Swift 01:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] fr-latin1 vs. fr-latin9

To get the euro key, i think man should set 'KEYMAP="fr-latin9"' in /etc/rc.conf and 'Option "XkbLayout" "fr-latin9"' in /etc/X/xorg.conf.

[edit] Using two keymaps at the same time

The article has no section explaining how to use xorg.conf to load more than one keymap. In my opinion, this is useful to make two keymaps available system-wide, when the computer is used to write in some non-latin language.

I tried to use the KDE tool for this, but it does only allow me to add the us keymap. Using this code, I'm able to use the portuguese layout and the hebrew layout at the same time:

Section "InputDevice" 

      Identifier  "Keyboard0"
      Driver      "kbd"
      Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
      Option      "XkbLayout" "pt,il"
      Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:lwin_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

The second Option line specifies the two layouts. The first one will be the default one. The third (and last) Option line specifies some options I discovered using the KDE tool: to activate the second layout, hit the left Windows key. To switch back, hit it again. The Scroll Lock led will be on when the second map is in use.

--Njsg 14:12, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

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