On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 20:04 -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > I actually have one in my name > > The proper (non-anglicized) spelling of my name has an umlauted u (?), so I also > use it a lot. > > > Kevin Kofler wrote: > > > IMHO us-intl should be the default for US locales, I > > don't see why we're defaulting to legacy monolingual crap. > > I agree 100%. > > More and more people are not anglicizing their names when they move to Canada, as > they once did until the 50s, when my family immigrated; Canada is officially > bilingual, hence the need for 2 types of keyboards, yet us-intl (also sometimes > shown as us-acentos) will correctly handle all Western, and likely most Eastern > European languages, plus a good number of other languages as well; the world is > becoming increasingly interconnected, particularly textually, through the Internet; > and there is absolutely no inconvenience to using a keyboard with all of its > functions intact. I just select it at install time, but I don't know that I would support it *by default*. Imagine the newbies screaming that their keyboard doesn't work :-) poc
