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Bug#287900: xlibs: Want us_intl without deadkeys



On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 11:38:07PM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:08:44PM +0100, Tim Dijkstra (tdykstra) wrote:
> > Package: xlibs
> > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: l10n patch
> > 
> > 
> > In the Netherlands all (well probably > 99%) of the pc users have a US
> > international keyboard, they also do want to type the Euro character.
> > The pc/us(intl) and pc/us_intl (and pc/us(alt-intl) which is identical) layouts
> > give you that, but they also gives you very annoying deadkeys. At the moment
> > there is no easy way (other then editing one of these files oneself) to get a 
> > functional Euro key on a US-intl keyboard _without_ deadkeys.
> > 
> > I added a very small patch that adds this possibility. One can then use
> > layout = us_intl, variant = nodeadkeys to get such a layout.
> 
> A much better alternative is to add a symbols/eurosign file, as is done
> in xkeyboard-config, so that EuroSign becomes available from any layout.
> But all my previous changes in xlibs were broken, and my intention was
> to not make changes anymore.  Branden and Fabio, what do you think?
> May I add this file and potentially introduce new bugs?

I think you're learned your lesson.  :)

Go ahead, if you like.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     Never attribute to malice that
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     which can be adequately explained
branden@debian.org                 |     by stupidity.
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