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Bug 19994

Summary: [Key Bindings] Keyboard shurtcut problems on Swiss German keyboard
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Dani Megert <daniel_megert>
Component: UIAssignee: Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: csmclaren, dirk_baeumer, n.a.edgar
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on: 20464, 23287, 23288    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Dani Megert CLA 2002-06-12 06:45:20 EDT 
The Uncomment shortcut does not work as suggested by UI: on Swiss German
keyboards the '\' is AltGr + '<'. When pressing Ctrl + AltGr + '<'  a '\' is
inserted which is not what I would expect. Pressing Ctrl + '<' does the trick.

Also Ctrl + '/' is strange because I have to type Ctrl + Shift + '7'
Comment 1 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2002-06-14 10:26:31 EDT 
UI suggested these short cuts. Nick, any comments
Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-06-14 16:45:59 EDT 
Tod, do you have any recommendations here?
Comment 3 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-06-17 09:23:55 EDT 
We should investigate the issue with AltGr+< - it could be a general problem 
with the AltGr key in the key bindings.

I would be reluctant to change Ctrl + / at the risk of causing a key binding 
conflict elsewhere.
Comment 4 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-09-06 13:48:24 EDT 
Raised to P2 as need to be sure there is not an AltGr problem.
Comment 5 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-09-06 15:01:08 EDT 
I checked on German and Uncomment (Ctrl+ \) has the same issue. The best 
solution to this would be to never use puncutation in an accelerator. This is 
a platform limitation on windows and so it will never work unless we define 
alternate accelerators in many European languages.

Referring to 
http://www.macromedia.com/support/fontographer/ts/documents/europe.htm.

Keys with this issue:

' , ~ \ {} # [] | @ $ #

Which affects: 

Uncomment (JDT)
Navigate/Previous (UI)
Comment 6 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-09-09 13:09:28 EDT 
The ' accelerator is not a problem. I confused it with other similar keys (the 
slanted 's) on European keyboards.

However there is still an issue with using \ as an accelerator.
Comment 7 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-09-09 13:12:12 EDT 
Reducing to P3 as we are just tracking Bug 23287 now.
Comment 8 Tod Creasey CLA 2002-12-05 11:44:22 EST 
Closing now there is language specific key bindings support
Comment 9 Tod Creasey CLA 2005-05-10 14:56:26 EDT 
Marking closed