Bug#524235: Default alt-gr key replacement should be right alt for usa keyboard.

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:23:47AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > >
> > > Now I see -- most traditional keyboard layouts are defining the right
> > > Alt as AltGr (including the default one).  In the past console-setup
> > > did the same but there were some complaints from American users who
> > > did not like this behaviour.
> >
> > I see no good reason for that.
> 
> 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.

It is common in Belgium too, but not as common as the "be" azerty
layout.

But (on the console) the right alt key is not used to type accented
letters, you use the compose key for that, which defaults to
ctrl+.  I have no idea what the effect of that is under X.

> One option might be to define a "US international" variant that does have 
> the alt-gr. When converting from console-data that might mean _always_ 
> asking whether the user wants one or the other if the current setting is 
> US.

The US international on windows uses dead keys, which is something
I wouldn't want.  But such option is probably useful for some
people.


Kurt