Bug#408482: French Canadians really using us keyboard layout?

[Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 10:31:47AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Philippe Cloutier (philippe.cloutier.2@ulaval.ca):

>> If I understand what Daniel wrote right, according to you French
>> Canadian keyboards are nearly impossible to buy in Montreal?

I'm surprised. A Canadian friend of mine bought me a french Canadian
keyboard and mailed it to me. He reports that he just walked in a
major electronics store and there it was.

> This is actually something that is very strange for me, given that
> it's nearly impossible to a normally constituted person to input
> correct French on a US keyboard.

In my opinion, you are over-inflating it. I do it every day; all you
need is one key configured as compose key (Multi_key in x.org
parlance). Both the Linux console and X support that concept.

I can imagine that a handicapped person would be challenged to type û,
because it requires three keys at the same time (compose-shift-6), but
then sticky keys would address that (in X), I presume. Oh, and I just
discovered that typing compose and shift-6 in sequence instead of
together also works. So trouble gone, only max two keys at the same
time, which is needed *all* the time when using a keyboard. So, even
more, for a "normally constituted person", what's the trouble?

It might cut down a bit on your wpm (words per minute), that is
true.

-- 
Lionel