On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 10:30 PM, Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Sunday, April 24, 2016 a las 10:19:10PM +0200, Alexey Balmashnov > escribió: > > > > > This is pretty basic functionality which should be available > out-of-the > > > box. > > > > > > Hmm, I must have missed such a "basic" functionality in the last 30 > years > > > of using computer keyboards. I never did this (changing layout on the > > > flight) on any UNIX desktop. > > > > > > > > You are kidding me. > > No, I'm not. And I used a lot of UNIX systems and typing actually this > chars on FreeBSD: I never switched on the flight the layout. I only > configured it once and used it. Sorry. What I do expect is/was be able > to use chars which are not on my physical keyboard (like the Spanish ñ, > or the chars ¿¿¿¿ and ¡¡¡) with the help of some modfier key. > I see. So you need to be able to input a few extra "accents" and using modifier key (switching on the fly how actual key-presses are interpreted by a system) looks and feels OK. For Russian you need 33 extra symbols of alphabet, overlay-ed over standard keyboard, modifier key just does not really fly in this case. I am used to keyboard layout switchers and I actually can switch to Cyrillic with a key combo (here is an example: и напечатать несколько слов; translation: and type in a few words). Different languages, different implementations, different views on what is "basic" functionality in terms of user experience and usability ;) Cheers, Alexey
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