Bug#466384: The change of default Finnish keyboard

[Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>]

Martin-Éric Racine kirjoitti:

> On 2/23/08, Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> wrote:
> > Martin-Éric Racine kirjoitti:
> > My point is that this really is not about you and me. This
> > Kotoistus keyboard is about Finnish people in general.
>
> The average Finn won't notice much. However, Finns who need to
> frequently write in a foreign language (a common case inside EU)
> definitely will, because writing anything but Scandinavian languages
> has become harder than before.

I believe that average Finnish people expect to get similar keyboard 
layout in Microsoft Windows and Unix-type X.org systems. With Kotoistus 
we'll achieve this. Yes, I do believe in standards. The Kotoistus 
keyboard is not yet the default in Windows, though, but it is already 
available for download: http://www.microsoft.fi/nappaimisto/

You made good points about writing (some) foreign languages. I can see 
now that writing some characters are a bit more difficult with 
fi(kotoistus). The characters itself are not lost, though. (And there 
are even more of them.)

In these arguments you seem to concentrate on ease of writing (certain) 
foreign languages. It's fine. I want to emphasize standards and the 
whole picture of writing any language from Finnish people's point of 
view. This view includes not only accented letters but certain 
punctuation marks as well which have first time become available with 
the Kotoistus keyboard. I'm sure you knew all this already. :)