Re: Keyboard shortcuts for international characters

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

Στις 20/Δεκ/2004, ημέρα Δευτέρα και ώρα 13:49, ο/η Owen Taylor έγραψε:
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 00:47 +0000, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> > Hi,
> > "Keyboard shortcuts for international characters", discussed at
> > http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051865621033.aspx
> > allow a user in Windοws to write common western european accented
> > characters without bothering to install a keymap and having to switch
> > between languages.
> > 
> > For example, you get shortcuts of the sort:
> > CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
> >         à, è, ì, ò, ù,
> >         À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù
> >         
> > and the dead key is "Ctrl-`".
> > 
> > For more, see this Mozilla Bugzilla report:
> > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270439
> > 
> > Where would this be implemented, through the standard X server XKB file?
> 
> There is sort of a gap here between "Microsoft" and "X server"... :-)
> 
> Assuming that you are actually talking about X:
> 
> Both Xlib and GTK+ have (separate) compose tables for dead key symbols,
> so if you map your X keyboard to provide dead keys in some location,
> they will be composed properly. X keyboard configuration through XKB
> is a black art; if you are using GNOME, you can experiment with the
> provided config files with gnome-keyboard-properties; going beyond
> that isn't easy.

The more you answer, the more questions come up. ;-)

1. I could not find the location of the keyboard configuration that
gnome-keyboard-properties uses.
Doesn't gnome-keyboard-properties use as well (with XKB) the X server
files found at gnome-keyboard-properties?
2. When I add three keymaps with gnome-keyboard-properties, I am not
able to switch between them with a shortcut. With two it's fine.
3. Me wonders who manages localisation of 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.xml
It has been touched by 10 languages only, it's relatively unknown.
4. For a distro, how can you configure the default keyboard
map when the user chooses a specific locale?
5. I realised that Greek Polytonic does not work (dead keys do not produced
accented characters). Who should I bug on this?

Thanks in advance,
Simos