At the risk of just making things worse ...

My €0.02 is that we should stick with level 5 right Control as being
optional. This is a marginal (in terms of percentage of userbase that
will ever see/use it) layout that people have to go out of their way to
use, but still taking away a modifier is a pretty big and surprising
step.

I've got sympathy with the non-breaking-space thing from a strict
technical correctness point of view, however it just can't be essential
for day-to-day usage if Windows requires you to enter it by the Unicode
codepoint. If such a large percentage of the French-speaking world cope
with it, then so can we.

I think Andreas's proposal is the only sensible one. Some people won't
be happy with it, but if this discussion (and that of Bépo) has shown us
anything, it's that you really can't please anyone when dealing with
alternate French keyboard layouts.

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Title:
  Right-Ctrl key broken on French OSS keyboard

Status in central project for keyboard configuration:
  Confirmed
Status in “xkeyboard-config” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “xkeyboard-config” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Since the version 2.5-1ubuntu1.2 of the package xkb-data, the right CTRL key 
of the keyboard has ceased to work.
  The problem started when APT has updated the xkd-data from 2.5-1ubuntu1 to 
2.5-1ubuntu1.2.

  If I switch back to 2.5.-1ubuntu1 using Synaptic, it works back.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: xkb-data 2.5-1ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu9
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Jun 16 00:16:09 2012
  Dependencies:
   
  DistUpgraded: Fresh install
  DistroCodename: precise
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 
(20120425)
  Lsusb:
   Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
   Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
   Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
   Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
   Bus 002 Device 003: ID 17ef:1003 Lenovo Integrated Smart Card Reader
  MachineType: LENOVO 4243E69
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-25-generic 
root=UUID=f6981326-31fd-4eaf-b039-3a1e5f33dbc0 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: xkeyboard-config
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 12/06/2011
  dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.bios.version: 8AET56WW (1.36 )
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
  dmi.board.name: 4243E69
  dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.board.version: Not Available
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
  dmi.chassis.version: Not Available
  dmi.modalias: 
dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr8AET56WW(1.36):bd12/06/2011:svnLENOVO:pn4243E69:pvrThinkPadT520:rvnLENOVO:rn4243E69:rvrNotAvailable:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNotAvailable:
  dmi.product.name: 4243E69
  dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T520
  dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
  version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.8-0ubuntu1
  version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu36
  version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.32-1ubuntu1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1
  version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
  version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1
  version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu10.2
  version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.0-0ubuntu1.2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 
1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
  version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 
2:2.19.0-0ubuntu1~xup1
  version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 
1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2

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