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Norwegian keyboard input method not implemented correctly

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland <at> ntnu.no>
Cc: 52868 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52868: Norwegian keyboard input method not implemented correctly
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 15:18:51 +0200

> Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 12:16:06 +0100
> From: Tor Kringeland <tor.a.s.kringeland <at> ntnu.no>
> 
> The Norwegian keyboard input method is not implemented correctly.  In
> the source code (`lisp/leim/quail/latin-post.el') it is noted that the
> implementation is based on the SUN keyboard layout.  This should be
> (and correct me if I'm wrong) the one given here [1] (see also [2]).
> 
> Most of the characters are correct (importantly æøå which you can't
> produce on a US keyboard), however there some inaccuracies.  For
> example, the key to the left of Z should produce < but it produces ~
> and with shift it should produce > but it produces ^.  Another example
> is the key to the right of [ which produces é (and É with shift),
> while [1] specifies that it should produce diacritics (I think it's ¨,
> which is standard for the Norwegian keyboards I've seen, but the
> resolution is quite low).  Note that the diacritics should be produced
> as a prefix, so by /e.g./ entering e as the next character you'd get
> ë.

Thank you for your report.

Would you like to propose a patch to fix those problems?

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