>>> the graphical install misses the variant "de-latin-nodeadkeys", so
>> Yes, I purposedly do it; I thought nobody used it and was only a relief
>> of the very old times when Linux was unable to properly handle 8bits
>> and dead keys.
No, this has nothing to do with it, and if so, it would be the other way
round, I think. :-)
>> Do you think it is worth adding it ? (I mean, all the persons that
>> may want to use it are experienced users enough as to be able to
>> manually edit the keyboard config file.)
Again, it�s the other way round. It�s the "normal" user who expects
to get the keys that are printed on the caps of his keyboard when he
types without pressing additional keys or tweak his keyboard
configuration.
"deadkeys" would be for the advanced or special-purposed users who
have reason for not wanting "nodeadkeys". (E.g. Germans that have to
write lot of text in French would want "deadkeys")
> Would be a nice idea. Which "user" has the `idea' that for a simple "~"
> he has to press the ~-button followed by the SPACE-button? Same goes
> for ` and ' and several other charachters, at least on my german Cherry
> keyboard.
I second that. It also annoyed me. I didn�t think of reporting it here
because I just changed my configuration without a second thought when
getting hit by that. "nodeadkeys" should be the default setup for
german users, I think.
Kai.
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