Re: Suse vs OpenSuse

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/21/05 

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:38:52 +0200

houghi wrote:

> Michel Catudal wrote:
>> Your 95% figure is a bit off, the
>> only thing I can see is that the German who wrote the install program
>> are too dumb to realize that not everyone uses the AZERTY keyboard.
>
> Germans do not use an AZERTY keybord:
> http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~tphillip/GermanKeyboardLayout.html
> The SUSE people at least are very aware not everybody is using the same
> keyboard:
> * /sbin/YaST
> * /sbin/YaST2
> * /sbin/ZaST
> * /sbin/ZaST2
> * /sbin/yast
> * /sbin/yast2
> * /sbin/zast
> * /sbin/zast2
>
> See that 'z' where the 'y' whould be?
> Perhaps one could also ask to include `yqst` for those who use an azerty
> keyboard. :-)
>
> I however never encoutered any problem with azerty keyboards when I was
> still using them. OK one small thing where I could choose the French
> layout, but not the Belgian. Just corrected it afterwards and no problem
> later.
>

I know Germans don't Azerty, they use Qwertz - I am using one at the moment.
What I said wasn't that when you select a different language other than US
English it swapped to Azerty, but to the default layout for the language
chosen.

OK, maybe 95% was an exaggeration, but I would guess a majority of people
who work in a non-English langauge probably also have a national keyboard
that relates to the chosen language. Apart from one old laptop, all my
machines have German keyboards. The old laptop I brought with me from the
UK, so I know when setting a language I need to set the keyboard layout at
the same time.

Heck, even when using default English language settings, I still always have
to change to the correct layout (most operating systems sold in the UK
default to a US layout which is unusable for most shift+ combinations, but
at least the main QWERTY section is the same. Maybe that is the difference,
if you are anywhere but in the US, you are used to having to check/set the
language and keyboard layouts are what you need ;-)

Dave

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