Bug#361777: xlibs: French keyboard updates
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Package: xlibs
> Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
Hi Samuel,
> From the ascii-art keyboard layout in /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/pc/fr, there
> should be a Multi_key key on the right of the AltGr (aka "Windows" key),
> but the current keymap doesn't include that. Could you please add
>
> key <RWIN> { [ Multi_key ] };
>
> to "fr" and "fr-latin9" symbols? (Or even to the basic "pc" keymaps)
No, ASCII-art is bogus, modifier keys do not belong to layout
definition; you can use the compose:rwin option to obtain this result.
> "fr" symbols also lacks a binding for nobreakspace (while "fr-latin9"
> do have it). Could you please add
>
> key <SPCE> { [ space, space, nobreakspace ] };
>
> to "fr" symbols?
No, /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fi contains this comment:
// AltGr+<SPCE> is pressed accidentally too often after AltGr+<LSGT>,
// hence AltGr+<SPCE> produces now space, not nobreakspace.
And indeed, many French people write nobreakspace by accident, as in
$ ls | grep foo
bash: grep: command not found
This is of course very confusing. Options nbsp:* have just been added
into upstream CVS and backported into the next xkeyboard-config upload
so that people can decide to add this nobreakspace keysym or not.
Denis
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