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Author	georg.brandl
Recipients	Nashev, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, gvanrossum
Date	2008-01-11.17:45:42
SpamBayes Score	0.0039020753
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<[email protected]>
In-reply-to	<[email protected]>

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Christian Heimes schrieb: > Christian Heimes added the comment: > > I think Nashev is talking about assigning hot keys by scan code rather > than by character code. > > E.g. on a German keyboard the 'z' and 'y' are switched and the 'z' key > is left to the 't' key. If a program assigns a hot key to 'z' by > character code than the user has to press the 'z' key which is a > different key on the German keyboard. However if a hot key is assigned > by scan code (not sure if it's the right term) than the hot key is still > assigned the physical key in the lower left corner. On which platforms do hotkeys have that behavior? I've never seen it.

Christian Heimes schrieb:
> Christian Heimes added the comment:
> 
> I *think* Nashev is talking about assigning hot keys by scan code rather
> than by character code. 
> 
> E.g. on a German keyboard the 'z' and 'y' are switched and the 'z' key
> is left to the 't' key. If a program assigns a hot key to 'z' by
> character code than the user has to press the 'z' key which is a
> different key on the German keyboard. However if a hot key is assigned
> by scan code (not sure if it's the right term) than the hot key is still
> assigned the physical key in the lower left corner.

On which platforms do hotkeys have that behavior? I've never seen it.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-01-11 17:47:52	georg.brandl	set	spambayes_score: 0.00390208 -> 0.0039020753 recipients: + georg.brandl, gvanrossum, christian.heimes, Nashev
2008-01-11 17:45:42	georg.brandl	link	issue1794 messages
2008-01-11 17:45:42	georg.brandl	create