Re: Global accelerators

Aaron Leventhal wrote:
> No one has an opinion on this?

Gee, you may have gotten some responses if you had posted to the L10N 
group (as opposed to I18N). I'm posting it there.
> Aaron Leventhal wrote:
> 
>> Should Ctrl+C/Cmd+C always be copy?
>> Should Ctrl+W/Cmd+W always close a window?
>> etc.?
>>
>> Or should the language being used sometimes affect the accelerator 
>> letter key?
>>
>> I'm not aware of any times where it should change. What do OS's and 
>> office suites do? I believe the letter associated with the accelerator 
>> should remain constant.

I agree. Europeans should be able to help here. Korean versions of 
Windows and office suites don't change them and I believe the same is 
true of Chinese and Japanese versions. However, it may be different with 
German, French and other European language versions.


>> It's only underlined mnenonics that change based on the locale. Is 
>> that correct?
>>
>> I'm asking this question because of 
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279245
>>
>> - Aaron