FUDCon:Lawrence 2013 i18n hackfest

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?

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?

Areas of concern

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]

Anaconda welcome screen: "Set keyboard to default layout for selected language.'"

Locales where it is typical to have multiple X keymaps configured: [4]

Anaconda: loss of pre-F18 knowledge of locale -> keyboard configuration associations

• [5]
• [6]
• [7]
• [8]
• [9]

system-config-keyboard entirely broken in Fedora 18

[10]

systemd / keyboard layouts: conversion xkb<->kbd is bad and creaky, we need xkb layouts on console

• [11]
• [12]
• [13]
• comments on vconsole.conf