Comment 34 for bug 108057
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| Dumitru Moldovan (dumol) wrote Re: Romanian keyboard layout has incorrect characters | #34 |
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Dear Mihai, in theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is... Reductio ad absurdum: let's suppose there are some incorrect characters in the RO xkeyboard-config file, can you please take a look at it and show us how to correct them? I suppose not, we were mainly talking about changing the default layout, nobody found flaws in the current RO layouts and the characters described there. In theory, the cedilla diacritics are indeed incorrectly used for writing Romanian, in practice however some users are still unable to read or type the commabelow ones, so they still use the latin2 diacritics. Most of them cannot tell the difference and do not give a damn. Cedilla diacritics are still needed for compatibility reasons and they are correctly described in the RO xkeyboard-file.
Jani, the names have their history. "std" and "winkeys" are names that xkeyboard-config maintainers use to describe "standard" and "microsoft style" layouts in all their files. "comma" was a name picked by Marius Andreiana for the ASTIQ variant that implemented the "commabelow" diacritics for the first time and "academic" was a name coined by Sorin Paliga, a linguist and MacOS user that has also participated to some of the meetings for SR 13392:2004 and that has been suggested to me by Cristi Secărică, the spiritual father of the new standard. If someone thinks of better names for the "comma" and "academic" layout, I could change them. However, keep in mind that the "comma" layout will become "default" in the near future and "default" will probably become "cedilla".
Cristi, a change in xkeyboard-config takes a while to propagate. First there needs to be an official release from the xkeyboard-config maintainers and then the distributions will start to include the new layout included in the new official release. Bleeding edge distributions like Ubuntu or Fedora Core would take about six months, others would take even more: 12 or even 18 months (think Debian stable). I'd say that if I want to change something in the xkeyboard-config file I would have to think 6 months in advance.