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Bug#261163: xlibs-data: change sequences for KP_Delete for PL locales



Package: xlibs-data
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6
Severity: normal
Tags: l10n

In Poland we use comma as decimal point. The numeric keypad Is commonly used
for entering a lot of numeric data. Right now pressing delete key produces dot
which is really useless here. It's common problem for newbies when they try
using some office package and they cannot enter fractional numbers. There are
dozen of post related to that on newsgroups and they always get answer like
this:
xmodmap -e "keycode 91 KP_Delet=comma"
As you can see this is not user friendly setting, and even finding that
solution in documentation may be really hard for newbies. 

I'm wondering why it wasn't reported to upstream. 
Maybe because it's hard to say who is "upstream"? - That's why I'm reporting
it here.
Please fix that at least in Debian. It's just small change somewhere around 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/ (I guess) and gives big improvement for users.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-1-k7
Locale: LANG=pl_PL, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL

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