Citizens in Cyprus usually use the same keyboard layout as greeks, el (or gr). The national currency of Cyprus is the Cypriot pound, characterized by the usual pound sign £. It would be useful to add the pound sign in the Greece Extended keyboard, just like Euro exists there. The number 3 would be a good place.
In the Greek layout, the shift-3 gives numbersign. I am not sure Greeks would be happy to change it. May be, separate Cypriot layout should be created, based on the gr(basic)?
Created attachment 10736 [details] [review] Patch for pound sterling sign I think Dimitris means that the pound sign should be added to the Greek extended layout, at AltGr-3 (level 3 shift-3), like the Euro sign is at AltGr-5. Here's an one-line patch to do this.
Won't Cyprus use euro in half a year ? The changes won't even have the time to propagate to users before being obsolete
I had a discussion with Dimitris on this. Regarding the introduction of the Euro, there will be a transition process that is described at http://www.centralbank.gov.cy/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=4424&lang=en What this means is that from Sept. 2007 to Jul. 2008 prices have to be written in both currencies. With this timeframe in mind, making the change now would mean that distributions appearing in the autumn will have the pound sign. The choice of AltGr+3 for the pound sign appears to be good, and makes sense as it follows the AltGr+5=€ convention.
Thanks, fixed in CVS. Actually I see there are many layouts using sterling character. May be, I'll add symbols/sterling the same way as we have symbols/eurosign
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