Re: Suggested keyboard remapping (qwertz) for '[[' and friends?

[Tony Mechelynck]

On 27/09/09 19:51, Patrick Gen-Paul wrote:
[...]
>>   "international English" seems to me a little contradictionary... :)
>>   Either it is English or international... ;)))
>
> I think the proper term is US International, basically a US keyboard
> that gives out-of-the-box access to the accented characters present in
> many latin scripts with minimal (?) contortions while letting those used
> to typing on a US keyboard type English text, or C code, etc. continue
> to do so without having to change their typing habits.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_US-International.svg
>
> I've never used one myself, but it would appear to use dead keys to
> create accented glyphs, thus dispensing you of having to hit a modifier
> key such as AltGr or Compose.
>
> If this article is accurate, the US International layout must have its
> merits, since it it is allegedly the layout provided by the standard
> keyboard used in the Netherlands.
[...]

I like the power of the Belgian keyboard included on this openSUSE Linux 
system, but maybe it is not for everybody. See schematic attached (in 
HTML with embedded CSS; "printable" keys only); on each key from left to 
right: with no modifier / with Shift / with AltGr / with AltGr+Shift: it 
seems it can write practically every Latin script (The dotted capital I, 
which seems to be missing, can be had from dead-dot-above then I; but 
for some reason the 3/4 fraction seems to be missing from the series 
going from ⅛ to ⅞. On "dead" keys (13 of them, plus two duplicates!), 
disregard the letter, which is there just to show "which" diacritic the 
dead key provides. Depending on the hardware (and on the shape & size of 
the Enter and Backspace keys), the µ£ key can be either at the end of 
the numbers rows (as shown here) or at the end of the home row (right of 
ù%). For best results when displaying the attached file, you may have to 
tweak "which" font your mailer (or browser) sees as "monospace" -- or 
edit the CSS rule for the body element.

Best regards,
Tony.
-- 
"Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends -- tell me where to
get more wax!!"

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Title: Belgian keyboard (openSUSE Linux utf-8)



Belgian keyboard (openSUSE Linux utf-8)

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Colours:

• Ordinary keys
• Duplicates
• Dead keys
• Duplicate dead
• Unneeded