French keyboard layout with Euro symbol

[Shachar Shemesh]

Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:

>"Shachar Shemesh" <wine-devel at shemesh.biz> wrote:
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>>The reason I listed it here is because in order for Wine to know what 
>>language the current keyboard is, it will also need to know what's the 
>>current keyboard.
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>>I have thought of two ways for Wine to do that - either it checks what 
>>name the symbol files is loaded as, or it scans the keymap (as it does 
>>today). Either way - it will have to have some mapping between currently 
>>loaded keymap and language. Hence the affect it has over X keyboard 
>>detection.
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>>I would appretiate it if you tell me if you think this logic is wrong.
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>I see nothing wrong with your logic after that explanation. Yes, we
>do really want to know the language of the current X keyboard layout,
>but unfortunately I don't know a way to query this information from X,
>and all we have now is only the current layout detection scheme with
>LCID attached to each layout.
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I was thinking of one of two options. Unfortunetly, both require us to 
know each keyboard layout we support (though, not necessarily know exactly).
1. Use the current scheme. LCID is all we really need, IIRC.
2. Use the XKB name

2 will mean that we reduce the keyboard source to a table of names, and 
their respective language IDs. I.e - "us" means English, "fr" means 
French, "he" means Hebrew etc. This will probably make adding new 
keyboard easier (and less error prone), but will ONLY work on XKB. Then 
again, keyboard selection (also part of the currently missing APIs) will 
only work on XKB anyways, so wer'e probably going to have to soft-depend 
on XKB whatever we do.

             Shachar

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