good deal on Linux notebook (today only)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 10:41:59PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I always thought that too.  But if
>   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Canadian_Multilingual_Standard>
> is right, what they are shipping is "Canadian French", not "Canadian
> Multilingual Standard".  I know because I'm always typing << instead
> of shift.

Hmm, I see what you mean.  I was pretty sure it was the multilingual
they were shipping, but apparently that isn't always the case.  That makes
even less sense then.

> I really don't know what to make of
>   <http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?evttoo=C&id=17253&section=text>.
> This 2003 document seems inordinately aware of MSDOS 5 problems ("RAM
> cram".  For most substantive content, it refers to
> CAN/CSA-Z243.200-91, something you have to buy for $79.00 for 36 pages
> of PDF
>   <http://shop.csa.ca/en/canada/information-technology/cancsa-z243200-92-r2011/invt/27009551992/>
> 
> This standard was published in 1992 and reaffirmed in 2011.  I'd
> expect it to be obsoleted and replaced by now -- it might well be.
> For one thing, it supports Latin No. 1 which is obsolete (Francophones
> don't like Latin 1 since it misses out on the oe character (long funny
> story)) (it also predates the euro symbol).  Latin 1 has been
> superceded by Latin 9.  Except, I think, that the first 256 code
> points in UNICODE correspond to Latin 1.
> 
> What a mess.
> 
> (I'm still lamenting the swap of ctrl and caps lock keys by IBM.  My
> Suns had it right and so did my Atari STs.)

Although they were wrong compared to the majority of type writers as
far as I can tell.

I personally like control at the bottom.

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Len Sorensen
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