Re: non-latin accelerator keys

[Tor Lillqvist <tml novell com>]

må 2005-12-26 klockan 13:58 -0200 skrev Raphael Higino:

> Perhaps in other languages worldwide A and Á are completely different.

In Finnish and Swedish, Å, Ä, and Ö are considered completely distinct
letters. No Swedish or Finnish speaker would think of them as A or O
with some "accent" attached. (Except in a purely mechanical sense, like
R could be described as P with an extra line segment...) In fact, a
(naïve) Finnish speaker might be more likely to consider Å as a variant
of O, as Å is not used in Finnish, and is known as "Swedish O" because
it is  pronounced like O in Finnish.

But, as Å, Ä and Ö have separate keys on the keyboard, the discussion in
thread is not really relevant for them. There are no odd keyboard
acrobatics involved in using them for accelerator keys. Dunno if any sv
or fi localisation actually does this, though. But at least in GIMP with
a Finnish keyboard you can dynamically bind some functionality to
Control-Ö, for instance, and typing that is no harder than typing
Control-P.

--tml