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Bug#696126: xkb-data: no way to (easily) type an apostrophe in polytonic Greek



On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 00:22:12 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> Package: xkb-data
> Version: 2.5.1-2.1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> In /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr, the "simple" variant of Greek allows
> for apostrophe and double-quote on line 78:
> 
> key <AC11> { [   apostrophe,    quotedbl ] }; // ' "
> 
> However, this is overridden in polytonic Greek (the "polytonic"
> variant) by the necessary dead keys:
> 
> key <AC11> { [ dead_grave, dead_dasia  ] }; // ` ̔ 
> 
> In polytonic ancient (and perhaps modern) Greek, phrases such as "οἶός
> τ' εἰμί" (I am able) are common, and it is a pain to have to change
> keyboards for just one character every so often.
> 
> It would be nice to be able to have these characters available in the
> standard polytonic Greek keyboard.  One possibility is to have key
> <AC11> be a FOUR_LEVEL key, allowing ' (apostrophe) using right-alt+'
> and " (quotedbl) using right-alt+shift+'.  Here is a tested patch
> which achieves this:
> 
Please send this upstream to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config&component=General

Let us know the bug number for tracking.

Thanks,
Julien

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