Subject: Re: Raccourcis clavier et i18n
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 07:08:18 CDT
On Mon, 08 May 2000, Henrik Berg wrote:
>> Microsoft did this by mapping Bold to CTRL+F ("Fetstil" in swedish).
>> "Now, what do we map Find to?". Need I say it, CTR+B.
>>
>> Imagine to turn on boldface anytime you want to find something, and when
>> you do want boldface, you get the find dialog. I say that keyboard
>> shortcuts should not change.
>
>That could be tru, but keyboard mapping must be possible to localize, since in Russian keyboard layout there is no ctrl+f or ctrl+b to press at all :)
I just checked what happens in the Russian keyboard. I'm in KDE and changed it
to the Ri keyboard and ran a Gforth program that outputs the character codes it
gets. The control key is ignored in Russian - control-sha gives sha, etc.
phma
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