KDE 'changes' my keyboard

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 14:41:10 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 20:04 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > I actually have one in my name
> 
> The proper (non-anglicized) spelling of my name has an umlauted u (ü), so I also 
> use it a lot.
> 
> 
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
> 
> > IMHO us-intl should be the default for US locales, I
> > don't see why we're defaulting to legacy monolingual crap.
> 
> I agree 100%.
> 
> More and more people are not anglicizing their names when they move to Canada, as 
> they once did until the 50s, when my family immigrated; Canada is officially 
> bilingual, hence the need for 2 types of keyboards, yet us-intl (also sometimes 
> shown as us-acentos) will correctly handle all Western, and likely most Eastern 
> European languages, plus a good number of other languages as well; the world is 
> becoming increasingly interconnected, particularly textually, through the Internet; 
> and there is absolutely no inconvenience to using a keyboard with all of its 
> functions intact.

I just select it at install time, but I don't know that I would support
it *by default*. Imagine the newbies screaming that their keyboard
doesn't work :-)

poc




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