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Bug#324647: /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pl: strange characters mapping with Polish keymap (pl)



On Thursday 25 August 2005 14:04, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> > This is because you are looking at the wrong file, see
> > /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/pl instead.  This file loads
> > /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/latin which contains these
> > definitions.  But I do not see why displaying these
> > symbols is a problem for you.

I had the same problem when working on the Dutch keyboard layout (see 
#286581). In the end I decided to define a clean, full keyboard layout 
without the inclusion of latin.

Reasons why loading the latin default can be considered a problem:
- a lot of the characters are not available in the standard charset;
- keeping the latin defaults leads to some characters being defined for 
more than one key;
- people don't expect keys that are undefined to generate "random" 
characters;
- there is little or no logic in which key combination generates which 
character, making them difficult to remember.

My feeling while testing the combination of latin default together with 
dutch specific overrides was that the result was very messy.

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