Re: change num pad behaviour



Le ven 05/12/2003 à 18:15, Mario Vukelic a écrit :
> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 13:09, Fabio Gomes wrote:
> > This sucks. I have the same problem with the us-intl keyboard layout and
> > the pt_BR locale. My numeric keypad became useless after that
> > misfeature.
> 
> I'd guess you can change that with xkeycaps
> 
> I disgree with your labeling it a "misfeature", although I can see that
> it may be inconvenient, depending on what you do with your numpad. 
> IMHO, the numpad should generate the character that is used as a decimal
> point in that locale. And, not to forget, it should generate the
> character that is printed on the actual key. In my locale, de_DE, a
> comma is used as a decimal delimiter, and the point is used to group
> numbers. I.e., a million and two cents are 1.000.000,02. It certainly
> makes sense then to make the numpad generate the comma. Also, "," is
> printed on the key.
> 
> I find it irritating that all browsers I tried don't get this right: 
> Epiphany and Galeon display a comma in the URL field, but a point in
> text entry boxes of web pages. Mozilla displays a point everywhere.

I find it irritating because gnome-terminal doesn't let me enter IP
addresses with my fr_BE locale. On the other side, I understand that
people using a lot spreadsheets would find irritating the opposite.
Anyway, anybody knows how to change it actually?

-- 
Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier beeznest net>

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