Re: Bug #69230: Accelerators should not be affected by keyboard group/level

[Axel Hecht]

Simos Xenitellis wrote:
> Hi All,
> After the nice presentation of Mozilla L10n at GUADEC, there was a
> discussion about important pending localisation issues in Mozilla. I
> think I talked with Pascal about this and he suggested to bring it up
> here.
>
> The bug report is
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69230
>
> It affects non-Latin keyboard layouts; when you press Alt-F to open the
> File menu, you need to have switched to the correct layout (either
> English if you have English Firefox, or your local language, if you have
> the localised version).
>
> This was an issue with GNOME and OpenOffice.org and has been fixed
> already. See
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=23836
> http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=42122

Those are down, at least right now :-(

> This Mozilla issue has been reported in several places upstream, such as
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/22151
>

This is really an intl issue, not a l10n one.

I'm not sure, but consolidating all those historic bugs into precise
ones would be good. It can't do any bad, for sure.

Axel