Comment 5 for bug 575978

On 07/01/2010 08:47 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Thanks for the report. According to the 'is' file, you can get
> 'dead_diairesis' if you press
>
> AltGr + [
>
> and 'dead_abovering' with
>
> AltGr + {

Indeed, the only trouble is that this is not what is indicated on the
physical keyboard. A reasonable image of an Icelandic keyboard is here:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Iceland.svg

> I am not familiar with the standard Icelandic keyboard layout; is the case
> that you describe the typical keyboard layout that a user expects to find?

Yes, though I an not sure about mac keyboards which might possibly be
different in some way.

> In addition, do 'degree' and 'diaeresis' have a use at all in Icelandic?

Degree, certainly - they use the celsius scale for temperature. Dieresis
not so much I think.

> If you can provide info towards the standard layout that is expected for
> Iceland, we can create a patch and submit to the xkeyboard-config
> project for inclusion.

I hope this helps. Please ask if there is anything else I can do
to help.

 -Peter

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