Re: Decimal key on European keyboard layouts

fre 2002-12-13 klockan 10.58 skrev Xavier Bestel:
> > When I press "," (the decimal symbol key) on the numerical part of my
> > Swedish keyboard in XFree86, I get a "." (point). This is obviously
> > wrong, as it should be a comma, the decimal symbol that is used in
> > Sweden and what this key is labeled with on Swedish standard keyboards.
> > 
> > I've checked some other keyboard layouts and others for which the
> > decimal key on the numeric keypad is a comma is as follows:
> > Finland (identical to the Swedish layout), Denmark, Netherlands, Norway,
> > Switzerland, Germany. I suspect that these may be wrongly defined as
> > point too.
> > 
> > Anyone else seen this? Suggestions?
> 
> Not a suggestion, but here my french keyboard has a dot "." on the num
> keypad, although the french decimal sign is the comma "," ... perhaps
> there are keyboards like this in your country ? That would explain the
> mistake.

I haven't seen any Swedish keyboards that don't use comma on the numeric
keypad. Note that I didn't include "France" in the list of standard
keyboard layouts above, because it does, as you point out, use a point
on the numeric keypad.


Christian