2008/7/16 helgi <helgip ( at ) callplus ( dot ) co ( dot ) nz>:
> SÃll,
>
> Ãg nota IS à Linux og er meà US hnappaborÃ. hvernig lÃst ÃÃr à aà not
> Ãessa skrà (viÃfest).
>
> munurinn er bara à ,.à Ãar sem Ãg hef breytt alt-gr à 'less','greater'
> og 'bar'
>
> Ãaà er ekkert annaà plÃss à borÃinu fyrir Ãessi tÃkn, og Ãg nota Ãau
> mikiÃ.
[Translation: The user wants to be able to type <> and | on pc104
keyboards which have no LSGT key (pc105 keyboards have them, pc104
keyboards don't) and proposes to modify AB08-AB10 keys on is(basic)
and is(nodeadkeys) for this purpose.]
This is most certainly a problem which everyone using the is layout[1]
runs into on pc104 keyboards which don't have an LSGT key (<>|) next
to AB01 (zZ).
I've thought about doing similar modifications on the is(basic) layout
but refrained from doing so since they've been unchanged for ages, and
someone might be using the Alt-Gr symbols defined on AB08-AB10
although I doubt it.
In particular I think changing AE02 (2) to have â and " accessible
through Alt-Gr instead of twosuperior and oneeighth (those could be
moved to the TLDE key) would be a good change since people using is
under X[1] can't type proper Icelandic quotation marks.
It might be better to define a new variant instead like the attached
patch to the xkeyboard-config git repository[2] does, it implements a
is(nolsgt) variant which does what you need.
But then again, maybe it wouldn't be so bad to deviate more from the
standard latin(basic) Alt-Gr keys on the is(basic) layout.
I'm forwarding this E-Mail to the rglug mailing list since it probably
has the highest number of people who care about the is layouts, and
the xkeyboard-config mailing list. Maybe there's another solution to
this problem that someone there knows about, like some composing of
the is(basic) layout and some existing pc104 compatibility layout.
1. Except is(mac) and is(dvorak)
2. Repository at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xkeyboard-config
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