Comment 25 for bug 108057
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| Dumitru Moldovan (dumol) wrote Re: Romanian keyboard layout has incorrect characters | #25 |
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The existing xkeyboard-config layout follows the standard to the letter. As Cristi Secară said it already, the SR 13392:2004 doesn't force you to set one of the supported layouts as primary and the other one as secondary. There is nothing against the law either in the Romanian xkeyboard-config file, the cited law only forces some categories of public clerks to use the standard, which they could very well do using the existing xkeyboard-config layouts. Let's not burn in flames over these issues. If you really want correct diacritics and know the difference, you should issue "setxkbmap ro comma" or "setxkbmap ro academic" and get what you want. There is nothing to "fix", none of the included layouts are "broken"...
As I said already, I think the optimal time to switch will be reached after a critical mass of Vista users will start to use the new diacritics and people will start to adapt to it. Right now I mostly see the negative reactions from the existing XP user base to the early Vista switchers that use the new layouts with commabellow diacritics. From what I see around me, the people have display issues with Word documents, webpages, mails, instant messages that use the new diacritics because they haven't applied the patch for XP that fixes the fonts. Sometimes it's not their choice, they are users in a corporate environment that have centralized policies for applying patches and hotfixes. Some software packages know how to borrow the commabellow diacritics from fonts that have it (Mozilla based products do this) and the text is legible, although noticeably uglier. Some other software have no workarounds and simply display empty squares. That hurts.
I very much respect the fact that Ubuntu users are early switchers and always eager to try the bleeding edge. But please understand the deeper aspects of integrating technologies that are used in other operating systems too... I would have switched in my translation to commabellow diacritics years ago, but I know there are a lot of XP users that use GTK+ apps and they will have issues with displaying my "perfect" diacritics.