Modern Linux distros, like Ubuntu, tend to prefer UTF-8 character endcoding and legacy operating systems like Windows and Palm OS tend to go for ISO 8859-1 character encoding when using a Swedish locale.
Some Ubuntu applications convert well (Open Office.Org, and some usually do not, like Abi Word). Unfortunately this is not a keyboard problem. Otherwise it would be an easy fix changing the layout file. Unfortunately there are many applications to be tested for character encoding awareness and conversion. Regarding the comment above on the Finnish layout: the keyboards shipped to both Sweden and Finnland do share the exact same physical layout and when using Windows, the keyboard driver works the same as well. Unfortunately, Linux distros has not usually picked this up and they comonly provide 2 different layouts for, respectively, Finnland and Sweden where the later variant usually do not support any easy way for entering common UNIX control characters like | and \ which makes life at the command prompt painfull when doing things in Swedish. -- Keyboard layout problems https://launchpad.net/bugs/15104 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
