Bug#477197: Dead ~

[Alberto Garcia <agarcia@igalia.com>]

On Wednesday 23/04/2008 08:05, Christian Perrier said...

> > I don't like the dead tilde either because it really is useless in
> > spanish.
  [...]
> Please don't change keyboard mappings randomly. There are standards
> for many keymaps and these should be respected as much as possible
> *and keep the established practices*.
> 
> This is why I think the "dead_tilde" change should be reverted
> even if it conforms to a standard (I didn't check but that's very
> possible because of that being the behaviour in MS Windows). This is
> *established practice*.

AFAIK that's the behaviour in Windows, but as you say...

> Also, please all think that Spanish keymaps are not only used for
> Castellano, but also for Catalan, Galician, Basque [...] Catalan
> uses grave accents, for instance.
> 
> And, well, being able to type correct French with a Spanish keyboard
> is not that stupid, right? :-)

And many Galician users write Portuguese as well, and for us the dead
tilde is completely essential :-)

Those annoyed by AltGr+4 producing a dead tilde can use AltGr+ñ and
AltGr+¡ anyway :)

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Alberto García González
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