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Re: Keyboard Layout configuration wizard - Swiss localization
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Holger Wansing
Feb 24, 2021, 8:00:03 PM2/24/21
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Package: console-setup
Severity: minor
Turning this into a bugreport, so it does not get lost.
Thanks!
Holger
"hispeedhsx" <his...@hs-x.ch> wrote (Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:31:43 +0000):
> Hi Debian boot team,
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> I'm new to Debian and I switch from centos but I have seen this problem for now several years and in several distributions even I think freebsd has it wrong (in my opinion).
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> So I'm from Switzerland and I use a "Swiss Keyboard". We have people who are talk and write in french and italian. There are also several people writing rumantsch which is a little bit special.
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> When I see the keyboards layouts in the installer from debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst I see there that Debian has a "Schweizerisches Französisch / Swiss French" and a "Schweizerdeutsch / Swiss German" keyboard layout.
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> There is one problem with this: In Switzerland we only have 1 hardware keyboard layout. Italian, German and French speaking people use this layout.
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> In short there is only one keyboard and this has to be called: Swiss = Schweiz
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> If a Swiss person is only writing in french and they don't write often german so they will use the AZERTY keyboard which is the same as the French people are using for example.
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> I will thank you for your responses and inputs. In my opinion this is a bug and should be fixed even it just for the small Switzerland.
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> I have subscribed today for the mailing list and I hope everything worked fine.
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> Best Regards,
>
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>
> Marc Walter
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Severity: minor
Turning this into a bugreport, so it does not get lost.
Thanks!
Holger
"hispeedhsx" <his...@hs-x.ch> wrote (Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:31:43 +0000):
> Hi Debian boot team,
>
>
>
> I'm new to Debian and I switch from centos but I have seen this problem for now several years and in several distributions even I think freebsd has it wrong (in my opinion).
>
> So I'm from Switzerland and I use a "Swiss Keyboard". We have people who are talk and write in french and italian. There are also several people writing rumantsch which is a little bit special.
>
> When I see the keyboards layouts in the installer from debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst I see there that Debian has a "Schweizerisches Französisch / Swiss French" and a "Schweizerdeutsch / Swiss German" keyboard layout.
>
> There is one problem with this: In Switzerland we only have 1 hardware keyboard layout. Italian, German and French speaking people use this layout.
>
>
>
> In short there is only one keyboard and this has to be called: Swiss = Schweiz
>
>
>
> If a Swiss person is only writing in french and they don't write often german so they will use the AZERTY keyboard which is the same as the French people are using for example.
>
>
>
> I will thank you for your responses and inputs. In my opinion this is a bug and should be fixed even it just for the small Switzerland.
>
> I have subscribed today for the mailing list and I hope everything worked fine.
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> Marc Walter
--
Holger Wansing <hwan...@mailbox.org>
PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
Axel Beckert
Feb 27, 2021, 10:00:03 AM2/27/21
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Hi again,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> But then we should name it "Swiss German/Rumantsch/Liechtenstein
> German" and "Swiss French/Lëtzebuergesch" to be correct in your sense
> of correctness.</sarcasm>
*sigh* "Swiss French/Swiss Italian/Lëtzebuergesch" of course.
Regards, Axel
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Axel Beckert wrote:
> But then we should name it "Swiss German/Rumantsch/Liechtenstein
> German" and "Swiss French/Lëtzebuergesch" to be correct in your sense
> of correctness.</sarcasm>
*sigh* "Swiss French/Swiss Italian/Lëtzebuergesch" of course.
Regards, Axel
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,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, https://people.debian.org/~abe/
: :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin
`. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5
`- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
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