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- From: walra%moacs11@nl.net (Waldi Ravens)
- Subject: Re: Indigestion
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 1994 14:29:42 +0100
- Precedence: bulk
-
- In <9406220029.AA24796@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, Warwick Allison wrote:
-
- > This is very tricky. We are missing a vital document: a list of all
- > candidate key combinations. For example, is ^/ allowed? Shift-/?
- > Shift-4? $? Shift-$? This is a good argument for using upper/lower
- > characters in shortcuts.
-
- On a uk or usa keyboard a user might find it extremely difficult to enter
- shortcuts like ctrl-<a-Umlaut> (german kbd) and ctrl-<a-accent grave>
- (french kbd). At least I wouldn't know how to do that.
-
- On a german keyboard / already requires the shift key (shift-7), so
- ctrl-/ is actually shift-ctrl-7, and shift-ctrl-/ doesn't make sense.
- The same is true for > (shift-<), ; (shift-,) and a couple of others.
- On the other hand shift-ctrl-+ would be ok on a german kbd, but not
- on a uk kbd where + is shift-= .
-
- For ctrl-@ things get worse, this would be ctrl-alt-<u-Umlaut>, and on
- a french keyboard @ also requires the alt key. Some other examples:
- ctrl-\ -> shift-alt-<u-Umlaut>
- ctrl-[ -> alt-<o-Umlaut>
- ctrl-] -> alt-<a-Umlaut>
- ctrl-{ -> shift-alt-<o-Umlaut>
- ctrl-} -> shift-alt-<a-Umlaut>
-
- Conclusion: including a list of internationally available key combinations
- in the shortcut standard is necessary IMO.
-
-
- Regards,
- Waldi (walra%moacs11@nl.net)
-