On 12 Nov 2006, at 05:15, Pavel JanÃk wrote:
Not sure I agree that it would be 'unusable'. This is what happens in, e.g. Microsoft Office, where ctrl+B for 'bold' becomes ctrl+G for 'gras' in French, to quote just one everyday example. Also, at least for me, even if ctrl+Z still means "undo" in French applications, the 'Z' key is in a different place, and I can't count the number of times I've hit ctrl+W instead. Thus: keyboard shortcuts certainly can and do change between different localisations of the same application. And different international keyboard layouts mean that even shortcuts that don't change (in theory) actually do change for the user who automatically hits the keys without looking at them. (And, I would hypothesise that people who type without looking at their fingers are the ones who are most likely to use keyboard shortcuts rather than the mouse, and thus be most affected by this issue). From that, I'd conclude that the issue of keyboard shortcuts is far from solved. The answer is not as obvious as you suppose. Certainly there are good arguments to keep common keyboard shortcuts across all languages (ctrl+F = find, ctrl+O = open, etc.) But there are also good arguments for doing otherwise, or at least allowing different NL teams to be able to decide. Tim |
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