On Wednesday 23/04/2008 08:05, Christian Perrier said... > > I don't like the dead tilde either because it really is useless in > > spanish. [...] > Please don't change keyboard mappings randomly. There are standards > for many keymaps and these should be respected as much as possible > *and keep the established practices*. > > This is why I think the "dead_tilde" change should be reverted > even if it conforms to a standard (I didn't check but that's very > possible because of that being the behaviour in MS Windows). This is > *established practice*.
AFAIK that's the behaviour in Windows, but as you say... > Also, please all think that Spanish keymaps are not only used for > Castellano, but also for Catalan, Galician, Basque [...] Catalan > uses grave accents, for instance. > > And, well, being able to type correct French with a Spanish keyboard > is not that stupid, right? :-) And many Galician users write Portuguese as well, and for us the dead tilde is completely essential :-) Those annoyed by AltGr+4 producing a dead tilde can use AltGr+ñ and AltGr+¡ anyway :) -- Alberto García González http://people.igalia.com/berto/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
