*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 795985 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/795985
This still happens in Ubuntu 11.04.
In my case the system's language and locale are both english, but the keyboard
layout is hungarian.
Unfortunately I could not set the locale to hungarian, this combination - which
also had its quirks before - was not available in the installer.
In hungary the comma is used as the decimal "point", so I guess Ubuntu
interprets the numeric del/point(! yes, the actual button has a point on
it) button as comma, which is unacceptable by the calculator.
Here are the different interpretations as I understand it:
physical keyboard -> POINT
layout (as shown in the keyboard preferences) -> POINT
layout (as "served" by Ubuntu) -> COMMA
gcalctool -> whatever Ubuntu "serves"
openoffice -> whatever the decimal "point" is in the locale set within OO
gedit -> whatever Ubuntu "serves"
Workaround (with probable side-effects):
System/Preferences/Keyboard -> Layouts -> Options -> Numeric keyboard delete
key behaviour
Set this to "Legacy key with dot"
After this the calculator accepts the numeric decimal "point".
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Title:
Decimal point on my numeric keyboard does not work. Is it because of
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