Martin-Éric Racine kirjoitti:
> I'm someone
> who actually *needs* all those new letters
My point is that this really is not about you and me. This Kotoistus
keyboard is about Finnish people in general.
> For everything else, it breaks what little
> compatibility there was was with other neighboring countries'
> keyboard maps and it makes it *more*difficult* to get some glyphs
> that fi(Classic) makes a breeze to get.
> The selected layout
> actually makes writing all these languages *more*difficult*.
I do believe you. No doubt you find some letters/characters more
difficult to write than before and of course you are right in your
opinion. There is fi(classic) available for people like you. But I
think it really is not an argument for not making fi(kotoistus) the
default because in general fi(kotoistus) makes it easier--and now first
time even possible--to write correct Finnish and international text.
This means accented characters and punctuation. None of the accented
characters are lost; couple of characters (see below) just need dead
keys now.
> Several deadkeys have gone away, because the default is
> not the same.
What keys exactly are gone? Honestly, I'm really confused because all
the dead keys of fi(classic) are there and there are even new ones:
dead_stroke¹, dead_horn, dead_hook, dead_doubleaqute, dead_belowdot,
dead_abovedot and dead_abovering. Do you find writing more difficult
because dead_caron and dead_macron are in different place? Or that now
łŁħĦšŠžŽñÑ (which were behind AltGr) need dead key?
By the way, I'm really interested in this stuff. Thanks for the
discussion. :)
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1. The dead_stroke will work after newer en_US.UTF-8/Compose file is in
Debian. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467142
The dead_stroke is AltGr(§) and AltGr(l) in fi(kotoistus).
