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From: ranson@crcge1.UUCP (D. Ranson CNET)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: International applications
Message-ID: <2782@crcge1.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 03:03:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 10 03:03:53 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Aug-87 01:53:58 EDT
References: <2771@crcge1.UUCP> <3624@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>
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Keywords: Localization
Summary: No this won't work

In article <3624@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU>, jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) writes:
> I appreciate the advice.  However, I'd like to disagree with
> one point.  I like the use of Command-number to select windows.
> Since this is strictly an optional shortcut, I guess the software
> might check for the French or Italian problem and either not offer the 
> equivalents, or use the symbols on the top line that have the same keycaps
> as the numbers.
> 
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> -- 
> 	Joel West  (c/o UCSD)
> 	Palomar Software, Inc., P.O. Box 2635, Vista, CA  92083
> 	{ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww 	jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu
>    or	ihnp4!crash!palomar!joel	joel@palomar.cts.com


Sorry, but this won't work either. On the French keyboard, some unshifted
"number keys" are special characters with diacritical marks. E.g. unshifted-2
is "e with acute accent". If you give this to MenuKey, the diacritical mark
is ignored, and you get the same as with cmd-E.

Let me add another example of something that does not work properly. I use
More1.1. Cmd-period is a menu shortcut (that is probably fed into MenuKey).
But the software first checks for the shift key in the event record, and
executes a totally different command when the shift key is down. As the
period key is uppercase on my keyboard, you can guess that one of the commands
does not work...

To summarize this, I'll say that unless you can test all Mac keyboards that
will ever be built, only cmd-uppercaseletter combinations are safe.

   Daniel Ranson
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