Hi Russ,
I am no expert in foreign keyboard layouts, and in particular not in
Latin-American ones.
However, I found the following program in Linux Mint (and supposedly
also in Ubuntu and
other GNU/Linux distributions) useful:
*gkbd-keyboard-display -l <layout>*
where <layout> is probably one of those in */usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/**
Also have a look here:
*https://kbdlayout.info/KBDLA/**
*
As a programmer I very much dislike country-specific keyboard layouts.
In the 1990s,
my Swedish employer wanted me to translate a technical document from English
to German on a PC with a Swedish keyboard. Almost drove me crazy.
I would also propose that the APL characters should be the same on all
keyboards.
Best Regards,
Jürgen
On 10/12/22 6:35 AM, Russtopia wrote:
Hello,
I was asked today by someone from Chile about APL layouts for
Latin-American keyboards.
It seems the ; : + * " / symbols are placed differently, which would
make for problematic mapping wrt. the US layout. Has anyone come up
with a good 'standard' layout for this region? (Interestingly there
appears to be an 'each' ¨ already there, right of the 'P' key, as
shift-comma).
Dyalog's keyboard pages do not seem to address such a layout.
See an example layout here:
https://howtoperu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/how-to-ty...@-latin-american-keyboard.png
<https://howtoperu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/how-to-ty...@-latin-american-keyboard.png>
-Russ
