Keyboard shortcut changes when switching language

[Arken]

Hi,

In Designer, in Windows 11, when my keyboard is in English pressing Ctrl + ; shows and hides the Guides as expected.

But when I change to Greek, the keyboard shortcut doesn't work anymore.

I found found out that the ; key on the Greek keyboard is the Q key on the physical keyboard. So when pressing Ctrl + Q while in Greek the Guides show and hide again.

But when I chage to another language, ex Bulgarian, now the keyboard shortcut for showing and hiding the Guides is different again.

I havent tested, but I assume this happens for all the keyboard shortcuts in Affinity Designer and the other two apps.

My point is the keyboard shortcuts should be the same on the physical keyboard on every language, because the key combinations changing on every language change is ridiculous.

 

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @Arken.

34 minutes ago, Arken said:

My point is the keyboard shortcuts should be the same on the physical keyboard on every language, because the key combinations changing on every language change is ridiculous.

I find it hard to disagree with your observation! The standard shortcuts for Undo, Cut, Copy, and Paste on Windows combine the Ctrl key with the four leftmost keys on the bottom row, which are Z, X, C, and V on an English QWERTY keyboard. On a French AZERTY keyboard, the bottom leftmost key is W instead of Z, and it would make no sense to have users going to the top row for the Z key rather than simply using Ctrl+W for Undo.

[DWright]

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