Re: Decimal key on European keyboard layouts

[Owen Taylor <otaylor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> fredagen den 13 december 2002 02.12 skrev Christian Rose:
> > Hi!
> >
> > 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?
> 
> It seems this is a feature (i.e. a documented bug) of X11, 
> The keypad decimal key is mapped to KP_Decimal which is a symbolic key, translated
> somewhere on the application side.
> The workaround is xmodmap -e "keycode  91 = comma". I notice some keymaps (cz,sk)
> have fixed this, although they have commented the  fix as inappropriate.
> 
> So, where is KP_Decimal translated to "." ? .Xdefaults can be used for some applications (XLIb?, xterm etc)
> but not others (GTK, QT).

The default GTK+ input method uses a big table of Keysym => Unicode 
translations, originally based on work by Markus Kuhn.
Probably that table needs a runtime exception for KP_Decimal

Just filed a bug on it:

 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101225

Regards,
                                        Owen
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