On Sunday 28 June 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Eh, I *am* an NL person... I thought I'd already made my comments clear > and explained the Dutch situation. Both in this thread and the BR from > Kurt about Altgr (#524235). > > 1) Some time ago I set the default in c-s for NL to 'us' (r58049). > 2) "Origin" as question sucks majorly. > 3) Both Dutch keymaps and American English keymaps are in use, but the > Dutch ones are a relatively small minority. > 4) If one of the variants currently listed under "Netherlands" really > is the American English layout then that is absolutely not obvious. > I would *NEVER* have understood that from the current descriptions. > 5) Dutch people very much *do* still type accented characters. Accented > characters are an important element of the language. Just see the > Dutch D-I PO files translation of the manual. My personal preference > when using an American English keyboard is to define right alt as > compose key for that. > 6) Both the Dutch and American English keyboards in NL do sometimes > have the € symbol; I've seen it on on both the 5 key and the e key. > I have no idea how many do (not) have it and how many have it on > 5/e.
What we probably should check is what keyboard config default Windows installs use in NL and see if we can match that. I'll see if I can gather some info about that and also check where the € key is on systems currently being sold here. But that will take time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
