Bug 76842

Summary:	No Latin American support!
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Francisco <espectro>
Component:	rhpl	Assignee:	Brent Fox <bfox>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Francisco 2002-10-27 23:22:37 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux)

Description of problem:
From about 2 years, no one but Spain uses spanish keyboards. We all now use Latin American keyboards (they are not the same)

I don't believe no one has reported this, since i know lots of latin people that use redhat.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install
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Actual Results:  No la support

Expected Results:  la support, it's easy to do

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2002-10-31 14:37:11 UTC

What is the correct keymap to use for X Windows and the console?  If you can
tell me this, I'll update the keyboard list for this keyboard.

Comment 2 Francisco 2002-11-01 02:34:02 UTC

Redhat ships with the proper XFree keylayout. You just can't select it in the 
installer or in the X configuration tools. It's called "la" instead of "es"

About the console, it is called /usr/share/keymaps/i386/querty/la-latin1.map.gz 
in another distro

Comment 3 Francisco 2002-11-01 02:42:32 UTC

The problem is the kbd package. It does not compile la support, therefore it's 
not selectable even manually. 

But XFree is easy to fix because the driver is already there.

Comment 4 Francisco 2002-11-01 02:52:57 UTC

Sorry 'bout that. la-latin1.map.gz is in redhat 8 too.
So fixing the installer should be pretty easy. As i said, "es" is deprecated 
outside spain. I am curious of why this wasn't reported before.

Comment 5 Brent Fox 2002-11-15 19:51:01 UTC

Ok, I've added the correct line to keyboard_models.py in rhpl, which the list of
keyboard models actually comes from.  I've tested it out and it seems to work
for me.  rhpl-0.63-1 should contain the update.  Thanks for your report.