Comment 15 for bug 198759

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 10:01:08PM -0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> "If you want to fix this please define a new type in
> /usr/share/X11/xkb/types/extra

> that does the same thing as the current type used for the space key with
> right-ctrl hardcoded instead of using iso_level5, then switch the space
> key in fr(oss) to this type.

> You have my blessing to merge the result as default in upstream
> xkeyboard-config."

> I think I get the idea of this, and will figure out an implementation
> shortly.

One thing that's not clear to me is why fr(oss) uses nbsp(level4n) instead
of simply using nbsp(level3). There's a comment in
/etc/X11/xkb/symbols/nbsp that:

 // This is good for typographers but experience shows many users accidently
 // type no-breaking spaces on the CLI (resulting in errors)

But I don't understand why this would be the case - how do you hit
AltGr+Space accidentally?

I don't use a French keymap so my opinion doesn't count for much, but it
does seem very strange to me that there would be a need to bind this to
RCTRL at all instead of using AltGr.

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