FEATURE REQUEST: comma (,) also useable as decimal point

FastEddy · Post by **FastEddy** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:42 pm

for the many german users (me too) with german keyboard and key layout it would be very great, when the comma (,) would also be accepted by the gui as decimal separator like the point (.) - because then they could use the numpad for value input without having to jump to the point-key on the other part of the keyboard.

possible to implement that?

fasteddy

alelink · Post by **alelink** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:31 pm

oh, yes please implements this!!
I'm in Italy, but I'm on a Mac, so we have the comma in the keypad too!

Post by **stiv** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:59 pm

Mapping numpad point to comma sounds like a job for the xmodmap utility. At least when running X.

kAinStein · Post by **kAinStein** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:48 pm

stiv wrote:Mapping numpad point to comma sounds like a job for the xmodmap utility. At least when running X.

It's less a matter of keymapping as of l10n. In many (if not most) countries a comma is used as decimal separator, so it makes sense and shouldn't be hard at all to do so...

FastEddy · Post by **FastEddy** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:52 am

kAinStein wrote:
stiv wrote:Mapping numpad point to comma sounds like a job for the xmodmap utility. At least when running X.
It's less a matter of keymapping as of l10n. In many (if not most) countries a comma is used as decimal separator, so it makes sense and shouldn't be hard at all to do so...

nevertheless it's quite a big problem for all these people using windows.
perhaps it could be done by a routine in the numbutton-code which simply changes comma char - if found - into a point.

fasteddy

wavk · Post by **wavk** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 1:50 pm

Yes I'm having trouble with this as well, couldn't find a system preference for changing it to a dot... quite bugging