FUDCon:Lawrence 2013 i18n hackfest
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[edit] Key i18n questions
[edit] Where are you?
[edit] What country are you in?
[edit] What timezone are you in? What timezone do you want your hardware and system clocks set to?
[edit] What is your nationality?
[edit] What language(s) do you read and write in?
[edit] What keyboard layout(s) do you use? How do you switch layouts?
[edit] Pre-Fedora 18 situation
- Anaconda: hand-weeded names for locales, hand-weeded list of available keyboard layouts, database of relationships between locales and keyboard layouts, system-setup-keyboard applied actual console and X configs based on the selection from anaconda's hand-weeded layout list
- /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
- /etc/sysconfig/i18n
- system-config-language
- system-config-keyboard
- system-setup-keyboard
- GNOME? KDE? Xfce?
[edit] Fedora 18+ situation
- Anaconda: locale names automatic, keyboard layout list derived from xkb via libxklavier, simple heuristic to try and determine single 'appropriate' keyboard layout for any given locale, anaconda writes out only X keyboard config and relies on systemd to write a console keyboard config
- /etc/vconsole.conf
- /etc/locale.conf
- localectl
- GNOME? KDE? Xfce?
[edit] Configuration architecture
[edit] Locale
[edit] Timezone
[edit] Keyboard layout
[edit] Areas of concern
[edit] Anaconda welcome screen: "What country are you in?" vs. "What language(s) do you read and write in?"
"Chinese (Simplified)", "Chinese (Traditional)" vs. "Chinese (China)", "Chinese (Taiwan)", "Chinese (Hong Kong)", "Chinese (Singapore)" - [1] , [2] , [3]
[edit] Anaconda welcome screen: "Set keyboard to default layout for selected language.'"
Locales where it is typical to have multiple X keymaps configured: [4]
