Comment 3 for bug 359719

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In , Piterpk (piterpk) wrote :

(In reply to comment #2)
> Sorry. I am a bit confused. How happend that RCTL is used for usual
> characters?
> Do you have a picture displaying engraving on that keyboard?

I am not with the thinkpad with me now. The engraving is "/ ?" (slash
question degree). How happened RCTL to be used for usual caracteres?
well... i think some manager at IBM/Lenovo thinks one extra key is very
expensive. Something like:

MANAGER1: "Damn! ABNT2 keyboard needs an extra-key! What i do now?"
MANAGER2: "Hey! This keyboard have two controls! Who need both?"
MANAGER1: "Great idea! We can use that second control to be the extra key"

> Also, would it make sense to add the rule like "if the layout is Brazillian
> and
> the model is Thinkpad, use br(thinkpad) by default"?

Yes. this is the correct. ABNT2+thinkpad=br(thinkpad)
More questions? -;)