Re: Wrong Keyboard

From	NP2 <NP2@somewhere.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mint
Subject	Re: Wrong Keyboard
Date	2022-01-17 13:06 +0100
Message-ID	<ss3m3d$17jus$1@solani.org> (permalink)
References	<20220117090332.b96c4056cae2433d6903b31e@gmail.com> <ss3ddd$d7m$1@dont-email.me>

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Jeff Layman wrote:
> On 17/01/2022 09:03, pinnerite wrote:
>> I installed Mint 20.3 with locale etc all pointing to English UK.
>>
>> Yet the keyboard produces US keyboard characters. e.g.
>> The pound symbol produces a hash, double quotes generates the @ symbol.
>>
>> System settings->Languages shows only UK English!
>>
>> What further can I do?
> 
> What do you have in the boxes for "Region", "Time format", and 
> especially "System locale"? Do you have "Apply System-Wide" for the latter?
> 
> In "Language Support", what happens if you try to install, for example, 
> "English, Ireland" or "English, Canada" (you might need to install a 
> supporting pack). I note, however, that in mine, where "English, United 
> Kingdom" is the installed language, all the "English, xxxxxx" packs have 
> "Some language packs are missing" against them - including English, 
> United Kingdom!
> 
> There seems to be a possibility of uninstalling language packs. Even if 
> you had a Timeshift backup, if "English, United States" was uninstalled, 
> and you selected "English, United Kingdom" as your installed language 
> would it simply default back to that after running Timeshift if it 
> couldn't find another installed language? I'm only mentioning that as it 
> seems to me you'll need to have a Timeshift backup in case something 
> goes wrong, unless you're willing to reinstall 20.3 from scratch.
> 

Why should a keyboard layout have anything to do with time format, 
region and language packs? Doesn't make sense. I know all these things 
are often grouped together (Windows especially does this), but that's 
just complicating things for no reason.

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Wrong Keyboard pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2022-01-17 09:03 +0000
  Re: Wrong Keyboard NP2 <NP2@somewhere.invalid> - 2022-01-17 10:18 +0100
    Re: Wrong Keyboard pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2022-01-17 10:20 +0000
    Re: Wrong Keyboard wicklowham <wicklowham.nospam@rfburns.eu> - 2022-01-17 16:19 +0000
      Re: Wrong Keyboard David Catterall <djcatt@eircom.net> - 2022-01-18 10:56 +0000
    Re: Wrong Keyboard Jack Strangio  <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> - 2022-01-20 04:05 +0000
  Re: Wrong Keyboard Jeff Layman <jmlayman@invalid.invalid> - 2022-01-17 09:37 +0000
    Re: Wrong Keyboard NP2 <NP2@somewhere.invalid> - 2022-01-17 13:06 +0100
      Re: Wrong Keyboard Jeff Layman <jmlayman@invalid.invalid> - 2022-01-17 13:08 +0000
  Re: Wrong Keyboard Chris Elvidge <chris@mshome.net> - 2022-01-17 14:09 +0000
  Re: Wrong Keyboard Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2022-01-18 18:07 +1300
    Re: Wrong Keyboard pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> - 2022-01-18 12:36 +0000
      Re: Wrong Keyboard Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-01-18 08:02 -0800
      Re: Wrong Keyboard Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@-.invalid> - 2022-01-19 20:37 +1300

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