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[Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@xxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xkeyboard-config

In bug #323041 there was a patch submitted that added 4 keyboard layouts
for crimean tatar.

The patch was somewhat big, adding those keyboard layouts to all
countries where Crimean Tatars are known to live whithout consideration
to the number of tatars in any of those countries.

In Romania there are many ethnic groups:
    * Romanian 89.5%
    * Hungarian 6.6%
    * Roma 2.5%
    * Serbian 0.3%
    * Ukrainian 0.3%
    * German 0.3%
    * Russian 0.2%
    * Turkish 0.2%
    * other 0.4%

In the other 0.4% there are Greek, Croatian, Crimean Tatar and then some
more ethnic groups. That renders the total Tatar population to less than
25000 people (the data is gathered from Wikipedia and other Romanian
demographic sources).

I'm not advocating removing all these keyboard layouts: I believe they
should have their right to their ethnic identity, but I don't think
there should be so many layouts. If every ethnic group would do the same
we'd have over 40 keyboard layouts.

As can be seen in bug #323041, these layouts were modified in a few
patches, as they seem to not be standardized (correct me if I'm wrong).

The number of keyboard layouts for Crimean Tatars in Romania should be
reduced.

** Affects: xkeyboard-config (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Confirmed

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Too many crimean tatar keyboard layouts added for Romania
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/418939
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