> If you're subscribed to the i18n list at xfree86.org, you might have > noticed that quite similar suggestion was crafted by Frank Murphy. Not really. Probably I should have. > I've given suggestions much along the same lines as yours, except that > I went for uppercase ISO 3166 two-letter country codes for location- > based layouts (like national standards), and lower-case ISO 639 two- > letter or three-letter language codes for "linguistic" keymaps. Well, as "identifiers" these codes are perfectly OK. But as "visible abbrevations" two letters IMHO are too short. > Frank actually went for a similar, but slightly different approach: > three-letter language codes, and two-letter country codes (all > lowercase, so it could work on filesystems which don't differentiate a > case). Again, you are talking about layout IDs - I am talking about visible strings. > You may try to look at the i18n xfree86 org archives -- this was > discussed fairly recently (August 13--25). OK. I will. But, again, if they are talking about IDs - that discussion is not relevant. Just look at xfree86.xml - there is "name" (which is essentially ID), "short description", and "description". AFAIU they (in xfree mailing list) are talking about "names". Correct me if I am wrong. > I believe it would be wise to follow the same pattern if anyhow > possible. Sure. > Btw, the country code for "Yugoslavia" (actually, since February it's > "Serbia and Montenegro") is "CS" and "SCG" since July 24, so you could > perhaps use that where appropriate. Also, I'm about to send an updated > Serbian keymap to Xfree86 -- so, if you ship separate keymaps, perhaps > I can work on improving a Serbian one. Well, the currently stable 4.3.0 contains the layout "yu" - that is why I had to put something for it. If in CVS it is replaced by "cs" - no worries. Regards, -- Sergey
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