On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 09:18:18AM -0400, Hans Deragon wrote: > > I would recommend you use altgr-comma c instead. this is implemented on > > at least danish, swedish, norwegian an finnish keyboards for X. > > Apostrophe-c should mean C with apostrophe - and not c with cedilla. > > > > Best regards > > Keld > > There is no AltGr key on a standard US keyboard. And on usual US intl > keyboards, at least those I used on MS windows or when no locale was set > under Linux, <apostrophe> <c> generates c with cedilla. So now what? I > strongly believe that the standard is <apostrophe> <c>. Now how am I > supposed to generate a <c> cedilla on a US keyboard when no AltGr key > exist?
OK, it was only a suggestion. I am not from the US nor from Canada and French is not my native language. Anyway is there a canadian french standard for keyboards - I believe there is one? And then that would have c-cedilla in a well defined way. I will consult one of my friends who is an expert in canadian-french keyboards. I actually was the one that generated the altgr-comma c fo c-cedilla for DK, NO, SE and FI keyboards, amongst other things for those keyboards. My impression is that people are happy with these arrangements, they even found out that I did it although it was not mentioned in the X sources. I am interested in doing some more work on it, also in the era of ISO 10646. One of the principles in the scandinavian design was that the keys would be easy to figure out from the current standard engravings of national keyboards. And that the keyboard be consistent. I do not think that using an acute accent would be consistent with generating a cedilla letter. Acute accent should always generate letters with acute. (that would be the theory - if you never used c-acute then it may be different). Anyway I believe c' is use in polish, croatian, serbian, check and slovakian, which are important languages, but not as important as french. Given that the US keyboard would be used in the US, and there are many people either speaking french or the other languages mentioned above, then it would be convenient if both c-cedilla and c-acute could be generated conveniently from the standard keybord. If we want some consistency, I would think the acute accent would be the best to generate the acute letter. How to conveniently generate the c-cedilla is not obvious to me, but is there another key that could be used as an altGr? Best regards keld _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
