Add Africa-Togo Keyboard Layout in the Linux Distribution

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Sun May 22 17:57:06 UTC 2016


On 2016-05-22 19:39, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> On 2016-05-22 18:40, Mats Blakstad wrote:
>> We also added new composers to libX11:
>> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/commit/?id=3129c757f9da8586ab8b8654a56c8f687cc9ef5c
>> As they keyboard uses symbols from African reference alphabet that do
>> not have composers in Ubuntu now.
>> Should libX11 ale be updated directly on launchpad or do we need to fix
>> it at gnome first?
> 
> Not sure about "should" or "need", but I can mention that the latest
> change to libx11 in Ubuntu is a compose file patch which I added...
> 
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libx11/2:1.6.3-1ubuntu2
> 
> I noticed that libx11 doesn't seem to be updated so often in Ubuntu, and
> I didn't want to wait. ;)
> 
> There may be some plan which I'm not aware about, but considering that
> the commit you linked to is the latest item in the upstream git,
> patching it in Ubuntu is probably a good idea.

Just a thought about those composers... You added them to en_US.UTF-8.
Doesn't it mean that the behavior is changed for all en_US.UTF-8 users?
How can that be justified?

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