On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Wez <[email protected]> wrote: > Would a French user expect such a dialog to say "Now press > Ctrl+Shift+/+&", though? >
I think that users expect shortcut mappers to show them the unmodified primary symbol of the key. For instance for a swiss guy the shortcut "ctrl+shift+ö" is expected for the pressing of the key "ö" which is modified by shift to be "é" but that's not what you'd expect. Likewise an Arabic keyboard user would probably expect "ctrl+shift+ج" and neither of "ctrl+shift+<" or "ctrl+shift+Jeem" or "ctrl+shift+Comma". Another example would be the numeric (non numpad) key 1 which is modified by shift to be "=" in english but to be "+" in german. Neither of "ctrl+shift++" nor ctrl+shift+=" is expected by either keyboard layout user, what's expected is "ctrl+shift+1".
