Add Africa-Togo Keyboard Layout in the Linux Distribution

[Mats Blakstad]

I tried to make a ptach to update xkeyboard-config package to new version:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/1584314

For Xlib it seems like last release was march 2015:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libX11/log/
Maybe we can just commit the whole pack as it is now?

I agree that to put it inside 'en_US' doesn't make much sense - but that is
what I was asked to do by Xorg people:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92344#c3
To me it seems like they want different countries to share compose
sequences, and they simply put it inside that file.
Not sure how this will work with Ubuntu?

And once these packs are updated, will they only get available for newest
version, or updated on all ubuntu versions using XKB?

Mats

On 22 May 2016 at 19:57, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj
>
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