A few years ago, I proposed to add a 'new' international keyboard layout: altgr-intl, which hides dead keys behind the right Alt key (aka AltGr). It is based on the International Keyboard layout, which in turn follows an example set by a company in Redmond. The map was accepted and is now used by quite a few people who use a standard US keyboard to type multiple languages. They type á (a-acute) with altgr-a.
Some people (and myself) would like to have more accented letters readily available through the altgr modifier. When Microsoft defined the international keyboard, they must have been thinking of a certain set of languages (including Icelandic?!?). The resulting keyboard does not suit all languages well (and it never will). But one could think of maps that would suit a few languages a little better. For French (and Portugese and Italian), à (agrave) would be handy (about 0.5% frequency in those languages). For Portugese, ã (atilde) would be nice (0.7%). Currently, ã is only available through a shifted dead key (which in altgr-intl becomes altgr-shift-tilde followed by a). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency We would like to propose a modified International Keyboard map, keeping the dead keys where they are, but adding all diaeresis and grave versions of all vowels on altgr-keys close to the vowel. This would require moving some others around or dropping them (like ð (eth) used in Old English, Middle English, Icelandic, Faroese - languages with fewer speakers). How do you feel about 'breaking' the (Microsoft) International Keyboard map in favor of one that suits some languages better? Regards, Adriaan The layout could look like this (qwerty etc with the altgr key held down): ã å é è ø ù ú í ó ò á à ë æ œ ì ü ï ö ä © ç ® ß ñ µ removed: þ, ð. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
