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Re: new Apple symbols map (exposes kernel buglets?)



On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 19:42, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Saturday 23 August 2003 6:25, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 13:49, Frank Murphy wrote:
> 
> > > Long-term, I'd actually like to increase the similarities between PC
> > > and Apple keyboards,
> >
> > macintosh/us could be changed to include and modify pc symbols?
> 
> True, but I'd rather do that via the Rules component. I think it's a cleaner 
> place to do that.

I'm curious what those rules will look like though, given the problem
below.

> > > so get rid of the macintosh directory and be able to use
> > > pc/us(105)+apple or pc/de+apple to specifiy an Apple keyboard (of
> > > course, using the rules so that configuration is similar to what you
> > > have here).
> >
> > Don't (some) international Mac keyboards have specific modifications vs.
> > their PC counterparts though?
> 
> I don't think there are that many. There were some Apple keyboards that had 
> the Euro symbol on the 2 instead of the E, but I think they're pretty close. 
> But I'd want to check before making that change, of course.

I think @ is in different places as well, e.g. it's on G on the Swiss
German keyboard.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer   \  Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast  \     http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer



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