War Story: HP 2000 Laptop

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Lennart Sorensen
| <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
| > Does bilingual mean it has the awful keyboard with the tiny shift keys
| > and enter key that are impossible to hit when actually typing (rather
| > than hunt and peck)?
| 
| Yep, I expect I'll want to poke at xmodmap to map several of those onto
| Control.
| 
| I briefly set it to "bilingual" mode; I couldn't figure out a way of getting
| important characters like <, >, |, which matter rather a lot in shell.
| That was a serious mistake.

Ubuntu has a guess-your-keyboard-layout feature when you are
installing.  Even with that, I couldn't get a bilinugual keyboard
configured properly.

I'm too lazy to do whatever hard work is required.  But if somebody
else figures it out, I'm interested.

My understanding is that the layout is a Canadian Standard.  But I
didn't track down a copy of it (I don't remember if it cost money --
I hate when they charge for standards).
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