[Pharo-dev] Substitution of ' to " in TextEditor>>shiftEnclose

[Maximilian Bareis]

Hi,

I am wondering if the upper part of 

TextEditor>>shiftEnclose: aKeyboardEvent
        "Insert or remove bracket characters around the current selection."

        | char left right startIndex stopIndex oldSelection which text |
        char := aKeyboardEvent keyCharacter.
        char = $9 ifTrue: [ char := $( ].
        char = $, ifTrue: [ char := $< ].
        char = $[ ifTrue: [ char := ${ ].
        char = $' ifTrue: [ char := $" ].

is a bug or a feature. For german keyboards it causes that pressing the single 
Apostroph (which is reached via shift-#) is substituted to ". So enclosing a 
textblock and pressing ' leads to comments around the block, which is really 
annoying.

I am curious, because this substitution does not make any sense to me. The 
keyCharacter is always the "real" character ( $( instead of $9 ). Also it seems 
that this substitution reduces the keyboard to the en-Layout, therefore breaks 
the separation of concerns.

Is there any reason, why this substitution takes place?

Regards

Max