Frederic Crozat wrote:
> You mean you too have '.' on your keypad but ',' is your decimal separator
> ?
>
> ARggggg..

Yeah, it's something that frustrates me when alternating between PC and Mac
keyboards (Windows is literal, Mac is localized).

Here's a page that shows several variants of numbers, both for the thousands
and the decimal separators (see table 1-3)
http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/806-0169/6j9hsml2b?a=view

I think there are even some languages that use other characters than "," or
"."

Might I suggest something? Why not leave in this behavior? It's an initial
bump to get used to, coming from the Windows world. But it *is* the correct
behavior. The people behind GTK+/GNOME have a very strict worldview, but I
think that a certain amount of simple consistency is called for. In this
case, they made the right call.

I know that I had a shock when getting used to the new keymaps (or maybe
it's because the locale is now UTF-8 and the keymap has been tweaked to
match). But it's *nice* for me to be able to get capital "�" in Linux. Just
as I got used to that, others with get used to the localized radix being
used.

Besides, it'd be ironic for a French-driven disto to chnage the correct
behavior in the French locale only. ;)


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