Debian keyboards

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The following keyboard layout files were available in Debian Linux Testing as of Nov. 1, 2006. New software is introduced into Debian Unstable, then moved to Testing when no major bugs are evident, then to Stable when it has been thoroughly tested and fixed. Note that Debian Linux supports more writing systems than Windows XP Pro.

There are three groups of files in this table:

• US files
• Files for languages of other countries
• Special files (vendor-specific, or special keys)

/etc/X11/xkb/
file             Language       Region
====             ========       ======
us               English        US
                   qwerty
                   Dvorak
                   left- and
                   right-handed 
                   Dvorak
                   Russian 
                   (transliteration)  
us_group2        English        US
us_group3        English        US
us_intl          English        US
                   European 
                   languages


ad             Catalan          Catalonia, Spain
af             Dari             Afghanistan
al             Albanian         Albania
am             Armenian         Armenia  
ar, ara        Arabic           Middle East, North Africa
az             Azeri            Azerbaijan
ba             Bosnian          Bosnia and Herzegovina
bd             Bengali          Bangladesh and West Bengal, India
be             Belgian          Belgium
ben            Bengali          Bangladesh and West Bengal, India
bg             Bulgarian        Bulgaria
br             Portuguese       Brazil
bs             Bosnian          Bosnia and Herzegovina
bt             Dzongkha /       Bhutan, Tibet
                 Tibetan   
by             Belarusian       Belarus
ca             Canadian         Canada
ca_enhanced    French           Canada
cd             Congolese        Congo, Democratic Republic of the
ch             Swiss German     Switzerland
cs             Bosnian          Bosnia and Herzegovina,Croatia, Serbia and 
                 Croatian       Montenegro, Slovenia
                 Serbian
cz             Czech            Czech Republic
cz_qwerty      Czech QWERTY  
czsk           Czech, Slovak    Czech Republic, Slovakia
de             German           Germany, Austria
de_CH          Swiss German     Switzerland
dev            Hindi            India
dk             Danish           Denmark
dvorak         English          various 
                 Norwegian
                 Swedish
                 French
ee             Estonian         Estonia
el             Greek            Greece
en_US          English          USA
epo            Esperanto        various
es             Spanish          Spain, Latin America
fi             Finnish          Finland
fo             Faroese          Faroe Islands
fr             French           France
fr_CH          French           Switzerland
gb             English          UK
ge             Georgian         Georgia
                 “Latin”
ge_la          Georgian         Georgia
                 “Latin”
ge_ru          Georgian         Georgia
                 “Russian”
gh             Akan, Ewe,       Ghana
                Fula, Hausa
gr             Greek            Greece
guj            Gujarati         India, Pakistan
gur            Punjabi          India, Pakistan
hr             Croatian         Croatia
hr_US          Croatian         US
hu             Hungarian        Hungary
hu_US          Hungarian        US
hu_qwerty      Hungarian        Various
ie             Irish Gaelic     Ireland
il             Hebrew           Israel
il_phonetic    Hebrew           US
in             Bengali          India
                 Devanagari
                 Gujarati
                 Kannada
                 Oriya
                 Punjabi
                 Malayalam
                 Tamil
                 Telugu
iq             Kurdish          Iraq
                 (Latin)
ir             Farsi            Iran
is             Icelandic        Iceland
it             Italian          Italy
iu             Inuktitut        Canada, US
jp             Japanese         Japan
kan            Kannada          India
kg             Kyrgyz           Kyrgyzstan
kh             Khmer            Cambodia
kr             Korean           Korea
kz             Kazakh           Kazakhstan
la             Lao              Laos
latam          Spanish          Latin America
latin          various          various European
lo             Lao              Laos
lt             Lithuanian       Lithuania
lt_std         Lithuanian       Lithuania
lv             Latvian          Latvia
mao            Maori            New Zealand
mk             Macedonian       FYROM
ml             Malayalam        India
mm             Burmese          Myanmar
mn             Mongolian        Mongolia
                 (Cyrillic)
mt             Maltese          Malta
mt_US          Maltese          US
mv             Dhivehi 
                 (Thaana)       Maldives
nl             Dutch            Netherlands
no             Norwegian        Norway
np             Nepalese         Nepal
                 (Devanagari)
ogham          Old Irish        Ireland
ori            Oriya            India
pk             Urdu (Arabic)    Pakistan
pl             Polish (qwertz   Poland
                 and Dvorak)
pl2            Polish (qwertz)  Poland
pt             Portuguese       Portugal
ro             Romanian         Romania
                 (standard,
                 Academic) 
ro2            Romanian        Romania
ru             Russian         Russia
sapmi          Sapmi           Finland, Norway, Sweden
se             Swedish         Sweden
se_FI          Swedish         Finland
se_NO          Swedish         Norway
se_SE          Swedish         Sweden
si             Slovenian       Slovenia
sk             Slovak          Slovakia
sk_qwerty      Slovak          Slovakia
sr             Serbian         Serbia and Montenegro
                (Cyrillic)
sy             Syriac          Middle East
syr            Syriac          Middle East
syr_phonetic   Syriac          Middle East
tel            Telugu          India
th             Thai  Thailand
th_pat  Thai  Thailand
th_tis  Thai  Thailand
tj            Tajik (Cyrillic) Tajikistan
tml           Tamil            India, Sri Lanka
tr            Turkish          Turkey
tr_f          Turkish          Turkey
ua            Ukrainian        Ukraine
uz            Uzbek            Uzbekistan
vn            Vietnamese       Vietnam
yu            Serbo/Croatian   Former Yugoslavia
                (Latin)
za            Afrikaans        South Africa


altwin
capslock
compose
ctrl
digital_vndr
eurosign  Euro symbol  currency
fujitsu_vndr
group
hp_vndr
inet  (multimedia controls)
iso-9995-3   Extra European characters
keypad
level3
level5
lock
macintosh_vndr
nec_vndr
pc
ralt
sgi_vndr
sony_vndr
sun_vndr
srvr_ctrl
xfree68_vndr

These keyboards support all modern writing systems except Mongolian Traditional alphabet.