| Summary: | french bepo, bad decimal separator | ||
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| Product: | xkeyboard-config | Reporter: | Jean-Paul Guillonneau <guillonneau.jeanpaul> |
| Component: | General | Assignee: | xkb |
| Status: | RESOLVED MOVED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | minor | ||
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
Precisions. Configuration : Debian testing Package: xkb-data Version: 2.10.1-1 I see currently
key <KPDL> { [ KP_Delete, period, comma, 0x100202F ] };
What's wroung about it? You can access either period or comma.
Nothing wrong, but a description is missing.
At the end of the french usual keyboard description, these lines are added (line 401-403): "// French uses a comma as decimal separator, but keyboards are labeled with a period
// Will take effect when KP_Decimal is mapped to the locale decimal separator
key <KPDL> { [ KP_Delete, KP_Decimal, KP_Delete, KP_Decimal ] };" in the /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr version 2.11-1.
I have to copy these lines at the end of the french bepo keyboard description (after line 535).
After that, in gnumeric and libreoffice, numbers are written in the french manner (12.35 ⇒ 12,35 for example) when I use my keypad.
Jean-Paul, would it be correct to use the simpler way: include "kpdl(comma)" ? After a trial : "include "kpdl(comma)"" change the period into a comma in all applications. The line I added in the group "French (Bepo, ergonomic, Dvorak way)"— just a copy of a line of the group "French (legacy,alternative) — change the period when I need it.
> change the period into a comma in all applications
That is what I like about it. Should the key work the SAME WAY in all applications? I do not like unconsistent behaviour, really
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French uses a comma as decimal separator, but in my spreadsheet gnumeric, the decimal separator is a period with my numeric keypad and keyboard Bepo. I add this line in the bepo section of "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/fr" (after line number 533) : "key <KPDL> { [ KP_Delete, KP_Decimal, KP_Delete, KP_Decimal ] };" Now, my decimal separator is a comma as expected. Note : the adress "http://www.clavier-dvorak.org/wiki/" line 443 is no longer relevant.