On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 00:22:12 +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> Package: xkb-data
> Version: 2.5.1-2.1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> In /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gr, the "simple" variant of Greek allows
> for apostrophe and double-quote on line 78:
>
> key <AC11> { [ apostrophe, quotedbl ] }; // ' "
>
> However, this is overridden in polytonic Greek (the "polytonic"
> variant) by the necessary dead keys:
>
> key <AC11> { [ dead_grave, dead_dasia ] }; // ` ̔
>
> In polytonic ancient (and perhaps modern) Greek, phrases such as "οἶός
> τ' εἰμί" (I am able) are common, and it is a pain to have to change
> keyboards for just one character every so often.
>
> It would be nice to be able to have these characters available in the
> standard polytonic Greek keyboard. One possibility is to have key
> <AC11> be a FOUR_LEVEL key, allowing ' (apostrophe) using right-alt+'
> and " (quotedbl) using right-alt+shift+'. Here is a tested patch
> which achieves this:
>
Please send this upstream to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=xkeyboard-config&component=GeneralLet us know the bug number for tracking. Thanks, Julien
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