Caution: Latin American rant ahead.

With my Latin American Spanish keyboard (xkb code "la") I can type in:

• English: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
• Spanish, Galician, Basque, Quechua: áéíóú ñ ü
• Catalan/Valencian and Occitan: l·l ç ïü àèìòù áéíóú
• French: àèù âêîôû ëïÿü ç
• Italian: àèìòù âêîôû é
• Dutch: ëïöü
• German: ß äöü
• Swedish: å äöü é ç
• Danish and Norwegian: æ ø å
• Icelandic: áéíóúý ð þ æ ö
• Finnish: åäö (apparently, the untypable žš are only used in loan words)

But not in:

• Portuguese: I can't type ã or õ (no dead_tilde)
• Guaraní: I can't type ãẽĩõũỹg̃ (no dead_tilde).

It turns out that for some people it's more important to have 3 (yes THREE) asciitilde (~) in the Latin American Spanish keyboard, than to allow people to write in the language spoken by 51% of South American people, or the second official language in Paraguay (spoken by 94% of the population).

The same thing happens with the Traditional Spanish keyboard (code "es"), which was initially thought only for Spain, but is now widely sold all over Latin America. It includes 2 asciitilde, but no dead_tilde.

I think this is outrageous and I'm very very pissed about this. As can be seen in the posts I've made to the bugs in Debian and in FreeDesktop.

However, it looks like we Latin Americans are overwhelmed by the amount of Spanish people in Free Software (particularly in Debian) who don't care that Brazil is the biggest economy in the region nor that other native american languages can't be written without a dead_tilde.

For the record, there are some other European languages, that can't be written with the Latin American keyboard, such as:

• Polish: I can't type ąę ż, only ł ńśź
• Czech: I can't type čď ěňřšťž, only áéíóúý
• Romanian: I can't type ă țș, only âî

But in this case, it makes much more sense to not be able to write those than not being able to write Portuguese or Guaraní, and it's not like there are 3 macrons and no dead_macrons, there are no macrons at all (same for all others).