Bug 36369

Summary: xkb fix for swl
Product: xkeyboard-config Reporter: saasha
Component: GeneralAssignee: xkb
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium Keywords: NEEDINFO
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description saasha 2011-04-18 12:24:39 UTC 
Hello!

I created code to be able to write in swl from the keyboard. The abreviation swl is the ISO-639-3 language code for Swedish sign language. This code could be included in xkb.

The files I created are available at
http://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/typsnitt/swlkbmap.xkb and
http://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/typsnitt/swl_base.xmlpart

A png of the layout is available at
http://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/typsnitt/swlkbmap.png

A sans serif font for swl is available at
http://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/typsnitt/swl_sans.ttf

Further information in English is available at
http://www.acc.umu.se/~saasha/typsnitt/#swl_engl

Regards!

Saašha,
Comment 1 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2011-04-29 15:42:19 UTC 
This is quite interesting - but I am afraid there are not many people using it. Would we put that into "extras" section of the directory, in base.extras.xml.in ?
Comment 2 saasha 2011-05-02 08:15:57 UTC 
Here is a clarification about the Swedish Sign Language:

According to
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=swl
the Swedish Sign Language (ISO 639-3: swl) has "8,000 deaf primary users". The Swedish Sign Language is also used by thousands of people who are not deaf to communicate with other Swedish Sign Language users, for example friends, colleagues, teachers, etc. of deaf people and also by interpreters, totalling a number of users for the Swedish Sign Language that can be estimated to a couple of tens of thousands of people.

The Swedish Sign Language is almost exclusively used in Sweden and its software snippets will be most easily found when placed within the "Sweden" section.

Regards!

Saašha,
Comment 3 Sergey V. Udaltsov 2011-05-02 16:29:21 UTC 
ok, thanks. Committed.

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