From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 8 05:39:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA22609 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:39:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wit395301.student.utwente.nl (wit395301.student.utwente.nl [130.89.235.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA22603 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 05:39:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gelderen@mediaport.org) Received: from [10.0.0.20] (helo=deskfix) by wit395301.student.utwente.nl with smtp (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zGOtO-0002MO-00; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:37:14 +0000 Message-ID: <001d01bddb25$6dad78c0$1400000a@local> From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" To: "Martti Kuparinen" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Subject: Re: I have added Finnish keyboard support for sysinstall Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:37:23 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id FAA22605 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Jordan K. Hubbard >> I have patched sysinstall to support Finnish keyboards. In addition to these >> patches, one must create two new files in /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ >> >> cp swedish.cp850.kbd finnish.cp850.kbd >> cp swedish.iso.kbd finnish.iso.kbd > >Hmmm. Question: If these are identical, what's the point of even >creating new maps? Why not just add a new menu entry in sysinstall >which points at the same Swedish entries or, even less trouble, simply >modify the swedish entry to say "Swedish/Finnish" or something? Hmm, I'd think Finnish people will expect their keymap at the F in the list since they don't know that it's the same as the Swedish map. (Exactly the reason why it's being added in the first place.) Therefore I think your first option is the preferred one... Cheers, Jeroen -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen - gelderen@mediaport.org Fight SPAM, join CAUCE - http://www.cauce.org/ Supporting the MAPS RBL - http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message