Re: Latin-American APL keyboard layout?

[Dr . Jürgen Sauermann]

Hi Russ,

I am no expert in foreign keyboard layouts, and in particular not in 
Latin-American ones.
However, I found the following program in Linux Mint (and supposedly 
also in Ubuntu and
other GNU/Linux distributions) useful:

*gkbd-keyboard-display -l <layout>*

where <layout> is probably one of those in */usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/**

Also have a look here:

*https://kbdlayout.info/KBDLA/**
*
As a programmer I very much dislike country-specific keyboard layouts. 
In the 1990s,
my Swedish employer wanted me to translate a technical document from English
to German on a PC with a Swedish keyboard. Almost drove me crazy.

I would also propose that the APL characters should be the same on all 
keyboards.

Best Regards,
Jürgen


On 10/12/22 6:35 AM, Russtopia wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was asked today by someone from Chile about APL layouts for 
> Latin-American keyboards.
>
> It seems the ; : + * " / symbols are placed differently, which would 
> make for problematic mapping wrt. the US layout. Has anyone come up 
> with a good 'standard' layout for this region? (Interestingly there 
> appears to be an 'each' ¨ already there, right of the 'P' key, as 
> shift-comma).
>
> Dyalog's keyboard pages do not seem to address such a layout.
>
> See an example layout here: 
> https://howtoperu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/how-to-type-@-latin-american-keyboard.png 
> <https://howtoperu.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/how-to-type-@-latin-american-keyboard.png>
>
> -Russ