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xkeyboard-config package

  1. Bug #73240
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 73240

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klptzyxm (klptzyxm) wrote :

While the "nodeadkeys" variant is often preferred by programmers, I think the
default de-"basic" layout should conform to the German DIN 2137 standard for
keyboards.
This states that only french accent keys (circumflex ^, acute ´, grave `) are
dead keys, but not the tilde ~ key. This is also the correct behavior in
Windows with the "German (Germany) - German" setting.
It is currently not possible to select such a variant in Linux as the "basic"
variant has "dead_tilde" enabled and "deadgraveacute" is missing a
"dead_circumflex".

See also
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Germany_and_Austria_.28but_not_Switzerland.29>