Ubuntu
gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #108057
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 108057

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Mihai Capotă (mihaic) wrote : Re: Romanian keyboard layout has incorrect characters

Jani, I'm glad you agree with us on the necessity of using commas. However, I disagree in regards to the default layout.
Romanian keyboards are indeed in minority right now, but I'm convinced the situation will change. After all, the standard was published in 2004 and Windows started using it only this year. The manufacturers are starting to adapt. I've seen Romanian keyboards delivered with Fujitsu-Siemens PCs in a lab at "Politehnica" University and I've read that all the Romanians working for the EU are given Romanian keyboards.
If someone choses a Romanian layout he expects it to be different from the US one. Regarding the majority of users, Windows is ubiquitous and it's default layout is the Standard layout. Thus, there will be no confusion for the users; in fact, the keyboards will function exactly as expected.
I don't see any reason why Ubuntu should diverge from SR 13392:2004 which, coincidentally, is also enforced by the Windows monopoly. I think Programmers is the default layout in xkb because the matter was decided by programmers but we should not forget that Ubuntu is an OS for everybody.