KDE -- persian keyboard layout is missing! (SOLVED)

Hi, after my upgrade from KDE 4.5.0 to 4.5.1 , keyboard layout indicator was gone, I thought it is a bug and will be fixed in 4.5.2 , but today , after upgrading to the lastest KDE in arch repositories and not being able to use keyboard layout indicator, I changed my second keyboard layout to spanish, and surprisingly, keyboard layout indicator showed up and worked perfectly! I checked with a couple of other layouts and every layout but persian without any problem. then I removed ~/.kde4/share/config/kxkbrc and tried setting layouts again , but nothing changed, persian layout does not work!
What's wrong here? Is this a packaging problem? I'm out of ideas! help me please!
Thanks in advance
Farhad Hedayati-Fard
Last edited by farhad_hf (2010-10-11 06:18:18)

I played around a bit with your problem, and I see that it is not related to Arch nor KDE. It can be narrowed to the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ir which is part of the package xkeyboard-config. Your version of it is probably 1.9, downgrading it to 1.8 is a temporal solution. Bug should be reported to the XKeyboardConfig team.

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