On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:09:20PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: > > 'ro2' becasue 'ro' was already used. > > It is suppose by whom? By microsoft? > Since the release of ISO8859-16, it would be better to > have two alternative keyboards: one for ISO8859-2 (Latin2) > which would be the obsolite one, and the ISO8859-16 (Latin10) > which would be the new one. The new one will offer support for > euro sign, Romanian quotations (German and French double quotations), > etc. Of course an UTF-8 based keyboard should be present as well. > Besides this, there is the microsoft (qwertz) keyboard which should > not be supported, IMHO. >
What is the official typewriter layout as used on typewriters used in Romania? I guess the situation is similar to situation with Slovak layouts, where the official typewriter layout is qwertz, but programmers absolutely hate it (because among others, they cannot type many special symbols needed for programming there). And people just hate switching between qwerty and (us) qwerty layout. The outcry was so big that even Microsoft included Slovak QWERTY layout in later versions of Windows. But of course, typewriter qwertz is default for XFree86 (as well as for MS Windows), qwerty as the alternative in XFree86 or MS Windows is a bit better but still unusable, but fortunately computer literate people can hack their own layout for XFree86 (I did and I know several other people who did the same). I guess qwertz has to be default because of all those secretaries and people who took lessons in typewriting using official qwerty typewriters. (because for Microsoft, official country norms are primary, and XFree86 does not know any better) -- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Radovan Garabik http://melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/~garabik/ | | __..--^^^--..__ garabik @ melkor.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk | ----------------------------------------------------------- Antivirus alert: file .signature infected by signature virus. Hi! I'm a signature virus! Copy me into your signature file to help me spread! _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
