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Bug#235125: xfree86-common: Decimal point on numeric part of Danish kbd doesn't work in some apps



On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:00:12AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 03:28:12PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 04:19:45PM +0100, E Pimp wrote:
> > > In most X applications like xchat and gaim I cannot use the decimal 
> > > point on the numeric part at the right of my keyboard. It is as if no 
> > > input is registered. In Mozilla, the button push results in the 
> > > insertion of a |
> > > 
> > > Disabling Numlock turns the key into a regular Delete button as 
> > > it is supposed to.
> [...]
> > Can you please mail this bug <235125@bugs.debian.org> the output of the
> > xev command when you press and release this key in the xev window?
> > 
> > Please strip out all the mouse events, and anything that's not a
> > KeyPress or KeyRelease event, really.
> 
> With your settings, this key is defined as
>     key <KPDL>  { [ KP_Delete, KP_Separator ] }
> but other layouts define
>     key <KPDL>  { [ KP_Delete, KP_Decimal ] }
> It seems that KP_Decimal is a period and KP_Separator a comma.
> That said, I do not know why this causes trouble.

But isn't a comma treated as a decimal separator in some locales?

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Thomas E. Dickey
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