Bug 494121

Summary: Many keyboard layouts seem to be wrongly put under "bqn" label
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: CUI Hao <cuihao.leo>
Component: kcm_keyboardAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: minor CC: butirsky, dev, natalie_clarius, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.1.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: Screenshot 1 -- English (US, intl., AltGR Unicode combining) under "bqn" code
Screenshot 2 -- Keyboard Preview failed

Description CUI Hao 2024-10-04 15:20:11 UTC
Created attachment 174420 [details]
Screenshot 1 -- English (US, intl., AltGR Unicode combining) under "bqn" code

SUMMARY

I have been using "English (US, intl., AltGR Unicode combining)" layout variant since Plasma 5.2X. Just now I wanted to do the same setting in a new machine with Plasma 6. I found somehow the layout variant was no longer under "us" label/country code but under "bqn" (see Screenshot 1).

When I clicked on Preview, the previewer complained it failed to load the keyboard geometry (see Screenshot 2):

Keycodes above 256 (e.g. <I256>) are not supported by X and are ignored
Error:            No Symbols named "intl-unicode" in the include file "bqn"
                  Exiting
                  Abandoning symbols file "(null)"
Comment 1 CUI Hao 2024-10-04 15:20:38 UTC
Created attachment 174421 [details]
Screenshot 2 -- Keyboard Preview failed
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2024-11-06 21:21:18 UTC
"bqn" appears to be written in the "Display Text" field. This is a text field that lets you choose a custom label for the keyboard layout.
Comment 3 Wismill 2025-02-14 11:17:29 UTC
Cannot reproduce on Plasma 6.3. I think this was an issue with the layouts variants in the extra XKB registry file.