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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
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Subject: Re: 'X' vs. 'Mouse'
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On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:50:33 -0700 (MST), Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> I had thought about putting a footnote about that, but it was already 
> too long.  Also, I don't know about non-English keyboards.  Maybe 
> there's a mechanism in hal to detect preferred keyboard layout from the 
> LANG setting.

But if LANG isn't set, and LC_* settings differ? I think
detecting the keyboard layout from the keyboard itself is
not possible at all (how should it?).


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Polytropon
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Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...