Some keyboard shortcuts not working on non-english keyboards

Question

It would be nice if the keyboard shortcut could work on international keyboards as well. I'm using a scandinavian keyboard which has some of the special characters moved around a bit compared to english layout. Seems like the symbols that need AltGr modifier are not working.

I.E search, hotkey "/" works, even though "/" is "Shift+7" on scandinavian keyboards. But opening the drawer "[" is "AltGr+8" does not work.

An effort to rectify this would be greatly appreciated.

Lasse Lundby Franck · Answer

This is an old thread, I know.

On Danish keyboards on Windows, we have issues like the one our Icelandic friend describes.

To select heading 2, we type Ctrl-Alt-2. But that is equivalent to pressing Alt-GR-2 which produces a @ symbol.
Heading 3 -> Ctrl-Alt-3 -> the £ symbol
Heading 4 -> Ctrl-Alt-4 -> the $ symbol
Heading 5 -> Ctrl-Alt-5 -> the € symbol

So Danes cannot use shortcuts for headers.

And we also have the issue since slash also requires SHIFT pressed, sharp parenthesises [ ] requre Alt GR - so I doubt that "Toggle sidebar" will work.

Alex W_jr9vvs · Answer

Hi Jonas, thanks for raising this! We're doing some investigation now on this. Can you confirm the exact keyboard you're using, is it Icelandic QWERTY? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_keyboard_layout