[Localization] What happened with German and French keyboard layouts?

[Chris Leonard]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Bastien <bastienguerry at googlemail.com>wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> writes:
>
> > Can't comment on the French layout but there apparently will not be a
> > German layout.
>
> Same here in France. But there are many developing countries where a
> french keyboard will be necessary (e.g. Senegal) so maybe there is a
> little more hope.
>

Let's not confuse what was logistically feasible / financially sensible to
do for the EU G1G1 (which unfortunatley did not move too many units) with
what is possible when manufacturing in volume for a deployment.

The page that has the most detailed information on what keyboards have been
designed (including what appears to be information on whether it was
released for a manufacturing run) is:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data

There are more keyboards listed in the Keyboard table (designed)
*http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#Keyboards*<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#Keyboards>

Than there are in the table sorted by SKU number (manufactured)
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manufacturing_data#SKU.28s.29

Admittedly, this is still not a completely clear mapping of how many of each
keyboard have been made, etc., etc. but it still shows that a good number of
keyboard variants do exist and clearly demonstrates the ability to create
additional ones if justified.

I do not have doubt that if there was a financial commitment to a
substantial deployment in Francophone Africa requiring a French keyboard
that the already existing design could be approved for manufacturing and
brought online quite rapidly.

cjl
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