[Bug 23908] What's the good key value of printable keys with Meta key (Command key) on Mac?

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=23908

Travis Leithead [MSFT] <travil@microsoft.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Travis Leithead [MSFT] <travil@microsoft.com> ---
<masayuki> shortcut keys of apps for English language users are designed for
QWERTY. Therefore, Dvorak layout isn't useful for shortcut keys.
[17:54] <garykac> Is that just a weird behavior of Dvorak to deal with the fact
that the keycaps don't match the layout.
[17:54] <masayuki> Some Mac's Dvorak users like this special layout.
[17:55] <garykac> If the OS/keyboard-layout went through the trouble to do
this, then it's probably nice to support it.
[17:55] <masayuki> Non-ASCII keyboard layout such as Arabic keyboard layout
also has same issue.
[17:56] <garykac> So an Arabic keyboard generates QWERTY values when the
command key is pressed?
[17:56] <masayuki> Pressing command key swtches the printable keyboard layout
to QWERTY.
[17:56] <garykac> I've never tried that...
[17:56] <masayuki> garykac: yes. You can confirm it with keyboard viewer of Mac
OS X.
[17:56] <garykac> en-US? (not en-UK or anywhere else)
[17:57] <masayuki> I think it's en-US.
[17:57] <masayuki> IIRC, though.
[17:58] <garykac> According to Keyboard viewer...
[17:58] <garykac> cmd-a produces 'a'
[17:58] <garykac> cmd-shift-a produces 'a' (also lowercase)
[17:58] <garykac> for en-US
[17:58] <garykac> For Arabic
[17:59] <garykac> cmd-ش produces 'a'
[17:59] <garykac> cmd-shift-ش produces 'A' (uppercase)
[17:59] <garykac> This makes me sad
[17:59] <masayuki> Oh...
[18:01] <garykac> My preference is for whatever the OS gives us easily.
[18:01] <garykac> I presume that the OS is doing things for a good reason.
[18:01] <garykac> And I'm not sure how to map this equivalent into Windows or
Linux.
[18:02] <masayuki> garykac: I don't think that Windows and Linux need to do
same behavior since Command key is a special modifier of Mac OS.

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