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Replace division slash with fraction slash on Neo2 (de) layout

qwertfisch requested to merge qwertfisch/xkeyboard-config:neo-bugfix into master

The definition of German keyboard layout Neo2 (or just Neo) differs from the official layout reference file of the project in one position (see line 348): the character for KP_Divide on „Ebene4“ (which is xkb layer 5) should be a Fraction Slash (U+2044), whereas the definition in xkb yet defines a Division Slash (U+2215).

Due to several circumstances, the wrong character was sent upstream to xkeyboard-config in March 2010, and until recently, no one detected the difference. We, the Neo maintainers and users, then had a discussion in our issue tracker (unfortunately all in German) about why there is a mismatch and what should be the correct character. We agreed upon that the Neo reference is representative and the fraction slash is considered to be of more use.

I already compared the rest of both definitions: no further differences found. All Neo-based layouts like AdNW or Bone will inherit this change, which is fine because they share the numpad definition.

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