> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Keld J�rn Simonsen ... > > are Swedish and Finnish keyboards different? I thought they use the same > > layout (Finns giving up š and ž in favour of å) > > They are the same, afaik. There are new standards from sweden > that tries to change this, but the standards bodies did not succeed > in changing anything. Well, it takes time... And VERY embarrassingly, the translation of the text of that standard to English is not ready yet. The Swedish text can be found at http://www.its.se/ITS/svenska_standarder/SS_66_22_41_2.pdf. The tables and figures are readable also without knowledge of Swedish, but for other details... Sorry! But translation IS under way. (B.t.w. giving up on � for a Finnish keyboard is a bad idea, Swedish is an official (minority) language in Finland; further, Finnish is the largest official minority language in Sweden). Other minority langauges, even if they have a status of officiality, are not well supported by the required parts of the standard keyboard. The Finnish standard keyboard layout is supposed to require caron as a "dead" key (which key is undetermined as yet), while optional for the Swedish. But the layout is otherwise the same, though I don't think there is any formally accepted text for the Finnish keyboard standard. Note that it is acceptable to instead have (combining!) accents as a "live" keys, to be typed after the letter they apply to. There is no notion of any "compose" key, and none is expected in any way (though it is not non-conforming to have one). MS and Apple are informed about the new standard, so I expect them to have full support (both what is printed on the keytops on new hardware, though Sweden has taken no action to actively inform manufacturers, and the system keymaps for Swedish/Finnish) for the required parts relatively soon. Others have been informed about it too, including representatives for the Linux community (read: Keld, at least). Kind regards /kent k -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
