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Bug 211821 - x11-misc/xkeyboard-config - dead key in spanish x11 keyboard
Summary: x11-misc/xkeyboard-config - dead key in spanish x11 keyboard
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
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Reported: 2008-02-28 18:53 UTC by Walter Iglesias
Modified: 2009-02-27 18:35 UTC (History)
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Description Walter Iglesias 2008-02-28 18:53:02 UTC 
In "/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/es" the line:

  key <AE04> { [         4,     dollar,   dead_tilde,       dollar ] };

I think it must say:

  key <AE04>  { [         4,     dollar,   asciitilde,       dollar ] };

In spanish language it is not necesary compose '~ + any_other_letter' (in polish perhaps) so, it is not necesary a dead key in that place. I don't know if somebody includes this change to spanish keyboard because it is used by other laguage (I know that catalan don't need this feature). Thanks.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-02-28 18:56:24 UTC 
Please submit similar things to bugs.freedesktop.org; not here.
Comment 2 Walter Iglesias 2008-02-28 19:18:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Please submit similar things to bugs.freedesktop.org; not here.
> 

It happens to me in gentoo only. It is keyboard input. And in this distro in particular is very dificult to configure the keyboard. Do you think it is trivial? Perhaps you have a machine that understands your voice.
Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-02-27 18:35:48 UTC 
Fixed in newer versions of xkeyboard-config.

And for the record, this particular bug should indeed have been reported to FreeDesktop as that's where xkeyboard-config is being developed. Fixing bugs upstream benefits everyone and not just Gentoo.

Thanks