[indiana-discuss] Running Indy2 in SXDE4 under VirtualBox

[Tao Chen]

On 2/17/08, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On Feb 15, 2008 8:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> >> Dave Miner wrote:
> >>>> Screenshot 03: First screen of Indy2 LiveCD running in SXDE4,
> >>>> selecting keyboard.  (This screen has a very serious political
> >>>> ramification, I have submitted a bug report, someone better pay some
> >>>> attention, or at least not show Indiana to any Chinese officials.)
> >>>>
> >>> Thanks for the reminder, I've transferred that bug to Bugster so that we
> >>> can get kbd -s fixed.
> >> I must be missing the bug there - clearly that's a list of regional keyboard
> >> variants, not national ones, since there are no nations of Latin America or
> >> French Canada.
> >
> > The bug here is China's political sensitivities regarding Taiwan, that
> > and the selection really isn't done in the correct way. It's being
> > done based on nationality instead of language.
>
> But it's not a selection of language, but keyboard layouts - and those vary
> by nation, region, and/or language - Sun really does sell keyboards in Taiwan
> with a different layout than mainland China, and needs some way to refer to
> those differently.

I think keyboards Sun sells in Hong kong are also different,
because most Hong kong people use traditional Chinese too.
Does Indy2 show a separate 'Hongkong keyboard layout' ? I can't check
it right now.

Tao