This step is only relevant for languages which can be rendered at the console, namely languages in categories 0 to 3 (see Section 3.5, “ Localechooser entry ”). For languages in category 4, this step will be automatically considered completed.

If the language coordinator already knows about console font and keyboard specifics, please provide this information (Debian Installer and more generally Debian uses the console-tools and console-data packages for handling console input and output).

For each specified console keyboard mapping the language coordinator should provide an equivalent X keyboard mapping. This information will be used to choose the correct default keyboard layout in the installed X environment. The Debian Installer i18n coordinators will record the pairs and should make sure this information is passed to the X Task Force. The X Task Force will use this information to choose the correct default keyboard mapping on fresh installations based on selected console layout selection.

Translators should be aware that this information is about input and display for the Linux console and not for the X environment. Linux console support is often very scarce for many languages, so this step will often be reduced to defining the default keyboard mapping for the console environment for this language.

For this step to be completed, a bug report mentioning the requested default keyboard mapping for the new language must have been reported by the Debian Installer i18n coordinators to the console-data or the kbd packages.

The Debian Installer i18n coordinators will record this information in the supported languages list by changing the nlp_step field value to keymap.