Keyboards - Availability in Canada

[Amanda Yilmaz]

Amanda Yilmaz wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
...
>> Rather unfortunate given the ISO 9995-3 that it almost matches has the
>> pipe and backslash where you would expect them to be (as in it is totally
>> US qwerty compatible).  I suppose you could put stickers on a US keyboard
>> and use the 9995-3 mapping.  I haven't figured out if X even has a full
>> 9995-3 layout.
> 
> I've been doing some poking around, and though I haven't found a
> standard 9995-3 layout in X yet (a curious omission, considering how
> many other weird layouts are in there - "Portugal Nativo for Esperanto",
> anyone?), I've found a layout that's very close: the "United Kingdom
> Macintosh" layout. Unlike the other UK layouts, this one puts `, ~, \,
> |, and @ in their US positions, and almost everything else in its
> standard 9995-3 position; the sole difference from 9995-3 appears to be
> that the £ and # symbols are reversed (£ is shift-3 and # is AltGr-3,
> which is to be expected of a British layout; AltGr means the right Alt
> key). With this layout, you can type just about anything in any Western
> language, though using AltGr-3 for # may take a bit of getting used to.
...

Update: I finally found a layout in X which matches ISO 9995-3 in all
respects, including the placement of #: it's the "Netherlands Macintosh"
layout. So choose that one if you want the 9995-3 layout (I just made it
the default on my laptop).

My apologies to everyone for cheerfully beating this topic to death, but
I really do get into this stuff. :-D

Amanda
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