On 12.06.08, Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote:
> On some keyboard layouts ~ is a dead key by default (danish for instance).
> I wonder why tilde is a dead key on danish keyboards, we don't have any
> chars in our alphabet that use a tilde accent.
The same holds for German.
> I guess someone once thought that tilde would only be used for
> languages, where it is an accent, and then defaulted it to dead?
> Then that someone thought wrong, or the one who chose ~ for homedir
> shortcut chose wrong :)
This is why I set my keyboard layout to german (nodeadkeys)
and I will not change this even if I would happen to write sometimes about
el niño (or use classical Greek citations).
In etc/xorg.conf:
Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys"
but I do not know wheter the nodeadkeys variant is supported for Danish.
Günter
