Re: Re: Decimal key on European keyboard layouts

Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> 19 Dec 2002 16:25:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.internationalization,gmane.comp.xfree86.expert
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le jeu 19/12/2002 à 16:23, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> Le jeu 19/12/2002 à 15:55, Markus Kuhn a écrit :

> > There was discussion long ago about adding a "decimal separator"
> > character to Unicode, but the idea was considered unnecessary and
> > confusing and therefore dropped. ISO has in the past suggested to use a
> > tiny downwards-facing triangle that is around the size of a full stop or
> > comma as a culturally neutral glyph for a decimal separator key, but
> > that too has not caught on.
> 
> How would one define a four-level <KPDL> in a layout then so the first
> two states are a decimal point (what's printed on the key here) and the
> two others the locale decimal separator (comma for us) ?

Sorry, the second and the fourth states, since the two others are
KP_Delete obviously.

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Nicolas Mailhot
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