Bug#530820: #530820: xkb-data: Please add il variant to replace underscore with hebrew hyphen
>The hyphen is already part of the 'lyx' variant.
True, but that variant also makes numerous other changes, such as removing the
uppercase latin letters from shifted letters.
>I don't think any separate character should have its own group.
I share the sentiment, and would prefer it if the basic layout were changed to
behave like my proposed "katef" variant. However, making that change to an
established layout seems much worse than introducing a variant.
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>There are symbols missing, indeed.
Besides the hyphen, I can come up with the traditional quotation marks (U+201E
and U+201C) and geresh/gershayim (U+05F3 and U+05F4). I don't see obvious
places for the quotations, though; and I'm not sure replacing the single and
double quotation marks with the geresh and gershayim is an improvement.
Anyway, if your point will be satisfied by renaming the variant from "katef"
to, say, "traditional" so that it makes more sense to include other symbols in
it, I have no objection whatsoever. All I really want is a variant that
behaves like basic, except that it has the maqaf-katef accessible (on second
thought, the quotations are a nice-to-have, too; instead of braces?).
>But I'm not sure that this is the right place to add them.
Isn't that exactly what layout variants are for? What other places do you
contemplate?
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