[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #2241: ~ (tilde) Key requires a double keypress to be displayed
- From: "jscipione" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:46:33 -0000
#2241: ~ (tilde) Key requires a double keypress to be displayed
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Reporter: scottmc | Owner: jscipione
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Servers/input_server | Version: R1/pre-alpha1
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by jscipione):
Replying to [comment:17 korli]:
> I think US-International is meant for international users, not american
users as you seem to imply.
Yes, that is mostly correct, although it is also used by English-speaking
Canadian users.
But the US-International keymap is also used by American users with
International needs. It is useful for any English-speaking country other
than the UK and Ireland, (which use their own slightly different keymap)
as well the Netherlands, (a Dutch speaking country that uses US-
International).
If you fit the above description and regularly need to type multibyte
UTF-8 characters, US-International is for you.
Now, getting back to the bug described by this ticket... the American and
US-International keymaps should have identical normal, control, and shift
maps. They are different only in regards to the option map. But, the dead
keys specified in the normal maps breaks this causing this bug. Yes, you
could use the American keymap to disable the deadkeys, but, then you also
lose the international characters produced by the option key as well.
It is my intention to alter the US-International keymap so that it will
produce dead keys only in combination with the option key, and to also to
add additional support for special characters needed by international
users making US-International suitable for all users specified above and
most American and English speaking Canadian users as well.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/2241#comment:18>
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