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International keyboards and executor
Executor has never been good at foreign keyboards, but I'm not sure that
Americans realise how bad it is. We're using executor for Linux/X,
and we have a Danish keyboard which works fine in X. For example, the
key next to L is Æ, and when I press that key, I get an Æ in most
applications. In executor, however, nothing happens. Normally, I can
find the Danish characters using the AltGr key, but that is really
slow.
Let me demonstrate:
In X, our keyboard normally looks like this:
§!"#$%&/()=?`
½1234567890+'
QWERTYUIOPÅ^
qwertyuiopå"
ASDFGHJKLÆØ
asdfghjklæø
ZXCVBNM;:_
zxcvbnm,.-
> *
< '
Using Executor without any option, it looks like this:
!@#$%^&*()+"
1234567890='
QWERTYUIOP?
qwertyuiop/
ASDFGHJKL
asdfghjkl
ZXCVBNM<>_
zxcvbnm,.-
< "
, '
As you see, the keys on the right side of L produce no output.
And using Executor with the -keyboard Dansk switch, we get:
!"#—%&/()=Ø`
1234567890ø‚
QWERTYUIOP_
qwertyuiop-
ASDFGHJKL
asdfghjkl
ZXCVBNM;:?
zxcvbnm,.+
; Ø
, ø
Now we get Ø in some places, but not where we want it--the keys next
to L still produce no output whatsoever. This is really bad!
What I would really like is executor just using the character produced
by the keys, instead of doing nifty keycode things (as I suppose it
does now). Please, ARDI, we've paid for this program!
Yours,
Thomas Widmann
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