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improve the names of two Czech and two Slovak variants

Ghost User requested to merge (removed):extrabackslash into master

Nineteen years ago, commit 8e1e2d81 baptized these four variants with the words "extended backslash". Nine months later, commit 999e981f synced these names to the relevant symbol files.

But just two days later, in response to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/2319, commit 3ad7cee7 changed one of the names to read "with <\|> key". (A week later, commit 1b8556fe synced this name to the XML file.) This gave one of the four very similar variants a deviant name.

The string "with <\|> key" is difficult for translators. For a long time I have thought that "<" and ">" were the relevant symbols, and that the "|" was an OR symbol, escaped by the "\". In other words: I thought that the string referred to the LSGT key. 😒

What the four variants actually do is: put the backslash and vertical bar characters on the BKSL key (replacing the dead diaeresis and the apostrophe), for those keyboards that lack the LSGT key, to make typing "\" and "|" more straightforward -- these symbols are present also on the third level of the Q and W keys. So what those variants do is: add an extra backslash and vertical bar character to the layout, for easier access, at the cost of having the apostrophe accessible only via AltGr and the dead diaeresis only via Shift+AltGr.

So... name all four variants more fittingly and in the same manner.

Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg bensberg@telfort.nl

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