new SI1452 keyboard layout

[Dotan Cohen]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 23:02, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:
>> Hi Shachar. I notice that the RLM and LRM are not implemented in the
>> new keyboard layout. You might want to mention to the rest of the
>> committee that there exist users who use the lyx layout specifically
>> for those two most useful characters. Please, do not remove them!
>
> They are in the il_proposed file (If they weren't, they would be extra
> characters I would have to add to my mapping :-) . If you're a veteran
> lyx layout user, note that they moved to AltGr-9 and AltGr-0.
>

Yes, they have moved to a quite unusable position, from their current
very comfortable position. It is near impossible for me to press two
buttons together with the same hand. This is a known issue with
humans, in fact it is the reason that the shift key is on both sides
of the keyboard and later meta keys were (mostly) added to both sides
as well. Furthermore the square brackets are nearly useless in Hebrew,
and therefore perfect candidate keys for these characters. The shifted
square brackets could just as well be the RTL and LTR keys as well.
Please mention this to the committee, especially the part about
relying on AltGr as being terrible for accessibility. It seems that
the ₪ character will suffer from this fate as well, please, don't let
this happen! Do not make us replace our right Alt key to AltGr.


> According to the comments in the discussion I linked to, it was added to
> the layout a bit later, folloiwng comments by Amir Aharoni.
>

I understand. Thanks.


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