Re: List of possible XkbModel entries per locale

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>]

Ionel Mugurel Ciobica <tgakic@chem.tue.nl>:

> So, my question is, why all the (western) european countries needs
> pc105?

I'm not sure how to answer that, but in case it helps, here is how a
British keyboard is labelled:


 ¬  !  "  £  $  %  ^  &  *  (  )  _  + 
 `| 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  0  -  =

                                {  }
  Q  W  E  R  T  Y  U  I  O  P  [  ]

                              :  @  ~
   A  S  D  F  G  H  J  K  L  ;  '  #

 ¦                       <  >  ?
 \  Z  X  C  V  B  N  M  ,  .  /


Every key is required for typing some ASCII character. All the
characters are ASCII apart from £, ¬ and ¦. The latter two characters
are hardly used in practice, as far as I know (they are from EBCDIC).
With a normal Linux keymap the key labelled ¦ produces | and is the
usual way of typing that ASCII character (rather than AltGr-`), so
there isn't any way of typing ¦ (use printf "\xa6\0" | iconv -f ucs-2
instead).