#132 Audio selection shortcuts and some keyboard layouts

[Ole Holst Andersen]

With some keyboard layouts (eg. danish) uses the AltGr key to access among others the characters '[' (AltGr+8) and ']' (AltGr+9). Since AltGr is equivalent to Ctrl+Alt, the key combinations Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] are not possible with such keyboard leyouts.
It would therefore be advisable not to use characters '[' and ']' as part of shortcuts that also includes the Ctrl or Alt modifier keys.
Other characters that is accessed using the AltGr key are: '@', '£', '$', '{', '}', '|', '~', '\' and '€'.

[Avneesh Singh]

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Thanks Ole for your guidance I think we can live without ctrl + [ or ctrl +]. global shortcuts Because these are used for in-phrase selection, which is of use when keyboard focus is on phrase i.e. focus is in contents view. And contents view already have local single key shortcuts which are '[' and ']' for this purpose.

[Ole Holst Andersen]

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Hi Avneesh, it seems that the '[' and ']' does not work either. I do not know if this is only on danish keyboard layout or if this is a more general bug. Also, the '[' and ']' shortcuts seem to be un-documented.

[Avneesh Singh]

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hello Ole, it is documented in list of shortcuts, under head of
"Transport bar shortcuts useful in contents view"
It is there on cvsdude wiki.
And '[' and ']' work well on my end on standard us english layout keyboard.
So, if it do not work on your Danish layout then you have highlighted a broader problem related to internationalisation as our softwares may suffer from such problems on other keyboard layouts also.