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Comment #5 on issue 9718 by [email protected]: Regression: Shortcut Right
Ctrl + Right Shift used for changing text directionality conflicts with
keyboard layouts switching shortcut
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=9718
Wow... this is tricky. According to Xiaolu, Ctrl+Shift (both left and
right) is
configured, by default, to switch between Chinese layout and English layout
*inside*
a Chinese IME. (actually, the short-cut key can be used in other IME's,
too).
However, there's an alternative way to switch between Chinese input mode
and English
input mode, which is pressing 'Shift'.
Moreover, Xiaolu thinks that more people use Left Ctrl + Left Shift (if
they use this
way of switching instead of just 'pressing Shift') than RCtrl + RShift. LC
+ LS sets
the text direction to LTR, but most Chinese users have that way so that
it's almost
always no-op for them.
Probably, that's why this hasn't been an issue for (Chinese) IE users even
though IE
has the same issue.
As to what to do: Given the above, I don't think this is urgent.
Anyway, one possibility is to do the following :
1) add a way to switch the text direction to the context menu (there's
already a
feature request for this)
2) add a pref to control whether to use ctrl-shift (left and right) for text
directiona switching in text-area.
3) set the value of the pref. to false in Chinese Chrome (and some other
language
versions of Chrome)
4) add a UI to change the pref. (adding that wouldn't be hard. It can be
just a
checkbox - boolean - in Advanced | Web Contents. Currently, that has only
one entry
and adding another should be easy, I guess).
However, according to
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