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Keyboards comes with those +</I>><i> little keys that are meant to produce accented characters in +</I>><i> combination with regular letters, and this how it works on Windows, +</I>><i> the platform most users will migrate from, and also on Mac OS X. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Regular users don't have any use of stand-alone-accent-characters. And +</I>><i> even with deadkeys it is easy to produce the standalone accent by just +</I>><i> pressing the key twice (so you can get backticks easily). +</I>><i> If you're a programmer and are using a nodeadkeys variant for that +</I>><i> reason, you're not the target population of a suggested default. (If +</I>><i> you know what is meant with "deadkeys" and "nodeadkeys", you're not in +</I>><i> target of that dialog, and have the knowledge to not accept the +</I>><i> default, but choose the nodeadkeys variant that is listed right next +</I>><i> to the regular variant). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> The variant with deadkeys is called "German" without any addition for +</I>><i> a reason. If nodeadkeys were the expected/more common choice, then it +</I>><i> would be "German (international)" or "German (deadkeys)", like it is +</I>><i> the case for the US-variants. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> ciao +</I>><i> Christian +</I>><i> +</I> +Actually belgian keyboards seem to have a similar issue, or so it seems... +I wonder if anyone knows if this could get fixed for belgian keyb's too + + +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="015442.html">[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4436] german keyboard: default to variant with enabled deadkeys instead of "nodeadkeys variant" ( mga#3791) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="015444.html">[Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: redis +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#15454">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#15454">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#15454">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#15454">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |