Sebastien Roy wrote: > On my laptop running snv_95 (OpenSolaris), I'm unable to type any > special accented characters unless I enter the mysterious "Latin" input > mode and select "English/European" as a "language". I'm totally > confused by this, and dislike it, as this input mode has all kinds of > nasty warts, such as the inability to type simple characters like " and > ' by themselves without some special keyboard tricks. My locale is > en_US.UTF-8 by default. I don't speak Latin, and I'm not European. I'm > actually typing in French to someone in Canada, in case it matters, so > this has little to do with Latin, English, or Europe. :-) > > How should this work? I'm guessing that I'm missing something subtle > and that I don't actually have to switch back and forth to this "Latin" > thing (hopefully). > > Thanks, > -Seb > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Then disable the input mode. French and English are single byte and don't need it. Right click it, and find the disable option. We are under Latin because English is derived from Latin and encompases French as well, but neither need access to special characters such as Han symbols or Kanji. In my option we should ask the user upon install at the user creation area what language the system should prefer as Solaris 10 did, because forcing it upon us it not useful. Why in their humble design plan they chose to enable something that's useless for modern Latin derivatives which has improper documentation blows my mind.
James
