Bug#524235: Default alt-gr key replacement should be right alt for usa keyboard.
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:23:47AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
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> Note that the US keyboard layout is fairly common in a lot of other
> countries than the US itself. It is for example THE most common keyboard
> layout in the Netherlands and Dutch users very much _do_ expect to have
> an alt-gr key by default as it is essential to type accented letters.
AltGr is useless with the basic US layout because it doesn't define
third level where the accented letters are situated.
> One option might be to define a "US international" variant that does have
> the alt-gr.
This is pretty much the case - the US layout has many variants besides
the basic one and with all of them the default of console-setup is to
use AltGr.
> When converting from console-data that might mean _always_ asking
> whether the user wants one or the other if the current setting is US.
When the user has xorg.conf then the keyboard configuration of X is kept
unchanged (with or without AltGr). But when there is no xorg.conf then
console-setup needs to use the the setting of console-data.
You are right, when the layout of console-data is 'us' and the locale is
not *_US, then the Debconf question needs to be asked with high or
critical priority (which one?). Currently it is asked with medium
priority.
Anton Zinoviev
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