[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Bug#777643: marked as done (general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT)

Your message dated Wed, 11 Feb 2015 05:08:41 +0000
with message-id <1423631321.2349.178.camel@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT
has caused the Debian Bug report #777643,
regarding general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner@bugs.debian.org
immediately.)


-- 
777643: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777643
Debian Bug Tracking System
Contact owner@bugs.debian.org with problems
--- Begin Message --- 
Package: general
Severity: normal


Hey.

Sorry for reporting against general, but actually I'm not quite
sure which package(s) is/are canonically responsible for the
keyboard mappings in all different places (console, X, wayland)
these days.

Some keyboard layouts (at least the German one) give the
· (U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT) on some combination (here it is AltGr+;).
Close to it (with respect to the location of the combination on
the keyboard) are the characters × (U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN)
and ÷ (U+00F7 DIVISION SIGN), again on the German keyboard layout.

So I’d conclude that · (U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT) is intended to be used
as a multiplication sign here,... in most non-Anglophone countries
at dot, rahter than the cross (i.e. × (U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION SIGN)),
is used as multiplication sign.

However · (U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT) is not intended to be that
multiplication dot operator, even Unicode itself states:
“for multiplication U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR is preferred”.


So I’d guess that in all such keyboards where · (U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT)
is mapped and intended as multiplication sign, it should be
replaced with ⋅ (U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR).

Cheers,
Chris.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
This is speculation, not a proper bug report.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part


--- End Message ---
Reply to: