Le Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:44:24 +0100, John Keller a �crit : > 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
Thanks, I'll check that.. > 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 would like to keep this new (but correct) behaviour but unfortunately, a lot of people will see it as "broken", because : <newbie_mode>under GNOME,I typed '.' key and I got ',' on the screen. Under KDE, xterm, whatever, I don't have this problem.. GNOME is bugged<newbie_mode> Just look at the bug report.. I think I'll completely back out the behaviour or I'll disable it for some locales (but I'm afraid to forget some..) > 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. ;) I would prefer to patch French maths to use '.' instead of ',' :)) -- Fr�d�ric Crozat MandrakeSoft
