Le sam 16/08/2003 à 19:34, Frank Murphy a écrit : > On Thursday 14 August 2003 11:02, Danilo Segan wrote: > > "fr" file governs keymaps for the French language, and it's sane (I > > already mentioned that there are other criteria, like population -- the > > criterium of "language origin" is just a sample one, for the sake of > > discussion) to have a "default" behaviour when loading a keymap for > > French *language* -- whether the default keymap would be Canadian or > > French is not directly relevant in this discussion -- it depends on the > > motives one has when defining a default. > > Actually, the current fr file describes the keymaps for the keyboard produced > for France. But the file fr-latin9 describes a more general keymap for the > French language.
Actually fr is the original french layout that matches what someone at some time thought was the french standard, and fr-latin9 a non-standard variation that evolved in the wild for years (because fr is very inadequate for serious use) before I snatched it and got it committed (with a very close variant in kbd). fr is "clean" and "standard" but some people hate it. fr-latin9 has some warts but makes some very necessary glyphs easier to type and therefore has some following. The language would probably bet a big boost if all countries that use it could get together and agree on a modern layout but don't count on it any time soon. [ another problem of course is most proponents of multiple language groups see it as a way to switch between "something" and qwerty, which fails miserably when the pivot layout is some other form of latin like azerty ] Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot
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