Subject: Re: documenting wskbd keymap names
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/09/2004 17:44:01
On Thursday, 9. December 2004 16:25, Matthias Drochner wrote:

> hubert@feyrer.de said:
> > I've tried to add comments to sys/dev/wscons/wsksymdef.h to indicate
> > what  a particular keyboard map is, but I'm not so sure that "sf" is
> > really  Swiss French etc
> 
> According to the commit msg in ukbdmap.c:
> 
> revision 1.10
> date: 2002/03/17 18:01:07;  author: augustss;  state: Exp;  lines: +49 -2
> branches:  1.10.4;
> Add Swiss keyboard mappings.  From OpenBSD.
> 
> "sg" and "sf" are indeed swiss german and swiss french, respectively.
> [...]

Is there a particular reason for these not using locale-style identifiers,
being somewhat closer to fr_CH and de_CH, which would make that relation a
little less obscure?  (ObRef: /usr/share/misc/{country,language}.)


- Klaus