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

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Friday 15 May 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:23:47AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > 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.

But AFAIK it can still be used for combining characters!
Example: <Alt-gr>+' e -> é

I'd call that far from useless. And that's how I personally prefer to 
create accented characters. Dutch does not use them enough that having 
them on 3rd level is really needed (and I don't write that much in Dutch 
anyway ;-).

> 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.

I'd say high. But OTOH, my locale is en_US and I'd still like the question 
asked. Given the above usage, I'd really like to see the question asked 
of all users.

Cheers,
FJP