Comment 13 for bug 418939

As I was one of those, who triggered the discussion, even if not directly, I am compelled to make some clarifications. So: ‘t's about Romanian users being exposed to layouts for languages they don't have any interest in seeing (or even, apparently, which they would rather not see)’. No, this is NOT a political issue, it has nothing to do with tolerance, with human rights and with minority issues. It has to do WITH CORRECTNESS of a linguistic issue connected to a keyboard layout, nothing more.
As a linguist and a person who speaks several languages, and—even if not familiar with Altaic languages—I feel at home with linguistics at large.
To a large extent, this issue is connected to the entirely wrong approach of keylayouts in Linux (am a Mac OS user, and creator of several keylayouts for Romanian—several variants, Old Italic, Old Church Slavonic, Czech. So, I feel competent to speak about this issue (see http://www.unibuc.ro/ro/cd_sorpaliga_ro , the English page seems to be under revision). Linux distros deal with political entities, and then places keylayouts under countries / states, an entirely wrong view, even if, of course, covering a reality. But what happens with those situations when there is no state there? What about Old Church Slavonic, Old Italic / Etruscan, Gothic etc. etc. Shall we randomly put them under a certain pretext?
The four or five Crimean Tatar keylayouts under Romanian is a total absurdity. It is true that there is a Tartar minority in Dobrudja, respected as human beings (I know some of them personally, my wife worked with them for 2 years). What has this to do with putting those unhappy keylayouts under Romania?
Do something, find something more intelligent than this really bad solution. Be constructive, use your inteliigence in order to achieve a superior way of thinking and do remove those keylayouts from there. They are entirely useless. And note that they are badly put there not because I / we do not want to see them there, but because their location should not be there. As Tartar is an Altaic language, until you find a more generic and more flexible solution, their place may be under Turkey or Mongolia or anything similar. This is not an ideal solution either, I agree, but it has at least a minimum of a logical approach.