Bug 13777

Summary:	Changing the default layout for me (Montenegro) from Cyrillic to Latin
Product:	xkeyboard-config	Reporter:	Edin Salkovic <edin.salkovic>
Component:	General	Assignee:	xkb
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	low	CC:	damir, dsegan
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	patch for symbols/me and rules/base.xml.in

Description Edin Salkovic 2007-12-22 03:58:48 UTC

The cs keyboard layout has recently been split into two layouts me and rs (see bug #12390).  Now those two layouts are exactly the same --- copies of the old cs layout.

However, here in Montenegro most of public documents, books, sites, national laws are written in Latin.  Printed newspapers are still on par.
See for example:
http://www.vlada.cg.yu/ (The official site of Montenegro government, in Latin)
http://www.skupstina.cg.yu/ (The official site of Montenegro parliament, in Latin)

The official sites of national printed newspapers are also in Latin:
http://www.dan.cg.yu/
http://www.pobjeda.cg.yu/
http://www.vijesti.cg.yu/

The majority of available keyboards is Latin.
The majority of computer users (especially "power" users) use Latin.

I've marked the priority as low because:
 - In schools, both alphabets are learned, and they are given the same status.
 - All rs variants (both Cyrillic and Latin) are currently present in the me layout, so everyone can choose Latin if he doesn't like the default Cyrillic.

Comment 1 Edin Salkovic 2007-12-22 04:08:19 UTC

Created attachment 13311 [details] [review]
patch for symbols/me and rules/base.xml.in

Comment 2 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2007-12-23 01:58:14 UTC

Committed, thanks. I just hope noone would have any issues with it.

Comment 3 Edin Salkovic 2007-12-23 03:30:16 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Committed, thanks. I just hope noone would have any issues with it.
> 

Thanks for the quick fix!  As for the possible issues, I hope you have some non-gray hair left for us Balkans :)

Seriously though, I appologize for not mentioning that I haven't tested the patch at all, since I'm not familiar with building/installing xkeyboard-config.  Still, the patch is trivial, and I have automatically generated (from symbols/me) the XML needed for base.xml.in, so there really should be no problems.

I have to thank Časlav Ilić (Chusslove Illich), because he pointed me at what needs to be changed.

Thanks for great software!

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