On Friday 15 May 2009, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:23:47AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > Note that the US keyboard layout is fairly common in a lot of other > > countries than the US itself. It is for example THE most common > > keyboard layout in the Netherlands and Dutch users very much _do_ > > expect to have an alt-gr key by default as it is essential to type > > accented letters. > > AltGr is useless with the basic US layout because it doesn't define > third level where the accented letters are situated.
But AFAIK it can still be used for combining characters! Example: <Alt-gr>+' e -> é I'd call that far from useless. And that's how I personally prefer to create accented characters. Dutch does not use them enough that having them on 3rd level is really needed (and I don't write that much in Dutch anyway ;-). > You are right, when the layout of console-data is 'us' and the locale > is not *_US, then the Debconf question needs to be asked with high or > critical priority (which one?). Currently it is asked with medium > priority. I'd say high. But OTOH, my locale is en_US and I'd still like the question asked. Given the above usage, I'd really like to see the question asked of all users. Cheers, FJP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
