Bug#546288: xkb-data: spanish keymap: 3 ascii tildes and no dead_tilde: unable to write in portuguese

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:12:30 +0200, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez wrote:

> spanish keymap has at least 3 ascii_tilde and no dead_tilde, so it is 
> hard to write in portuguese correctly. given that portugal is 
> geographically next to spain, there is a need to communicate in that 
> language.
> 
> of the 3 ascii tildes in the keyboard, i think the less invasive to 
> change is the one in the key '¡', also that key is next to the other 
> dead marks `'"^ ... and is present in desktop and laptop keyboards
> 
> it is matter to change in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/es line 20 from 
> asciitilde to dead_tilde.
> 
Please send this upstream at
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config

First have a look at
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9763
for a similar change that was made and then reverted because of spanish
user complaints.

Cheers,
Julien