Comment 9 for bug 191451

Ok... Let's precise a few points! ;-)

First of all this bug report really should have been split into two or even three ones (not sure about the dependence between the first and second one):
- one about the default keyboard choice for Vietnamese in gfxboot, currently VN but we need US (straight, not intl) ;
- one about the default input method when running GTK2, currently VIQR (automatically chosen because of the "vi" locale) but we need SCIM ;
- one about input method to add to language-support-vi, currently scim-tables-additional (which brings VIQR only) but we need instead scim-m17n AND m17n-db (which requires m17n-lib in turn) which brings VIQR (Vietnamese abroad), Telex (North Vietnam) and VNI (South Vietnam).

Note on the last point that Ubuntu (in fact Debian) currently only provides the 1.3.1 version of m17n-db (and m17n-lib), which is usable enough but does not allow typing "freely" (which means putting the accentuation at the end of the word). This "free typing" thing is provided only from m17n-db 1.4.0 which I did package into our HanoiLUG repository and in my PPA ( https://launchpad.net/~progfou/+archive ).

Hope this help. I hope these problems are not concerned by the current feature freeze (=> I hope we did not announce them too late...) since it's badly required here. The current situation is that we have to remaster the Ubuntu desktop CD at each release to try to enforce these policy a bit (but probably not doing this "The Right Way"™...).

Feel free to ask us more information or even to ask us to re-report these bugs independently, in which case help on choosing the right package assignments would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, J.C.