Please give Waveform support for non english keyboards

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Yes, pressing SHiFT+7 is not easy when the combo is supposed to be SHIFT+/ that is like a loop into loop. You can not press SHIFT twice at the same time :) So I have remapped it to another key. But what I am saying here is that it is a bad practise to use keys that are not common in al language keys. Even microsoft understands that and their motto is like "made by programmers for nobody".
chico.co.uk wrote:
GearNostalgia wrote:
chico.co.uk wrote:Sorry, I don't understand that.
It is not what is written on the key but where the key is placed on the keyboard that counts. See it as if you take out your key A on the keyboard and the P and swap their places. Then you take the letter A and pain say M on it. Hand that keyboard over to a user and tell him to press the A key. That is how it works for me when the / is not / and but the key - is slash and it is an totally different place.
I sort of get that, in the sense that English language keyboards have QWERTY across the top letter keys, whereas French keyboards have AZERTY in the same place, but I don't get the relevance to the problem. I'm not having a go, I'm just trying to understand the issue, I do believe there's a problem, I just don't quite get what doesn't work.

On an English keyboard the / character is a separate key, near the bottom, on the right, just above the space bar. I understand you don't have that key, on a Swedish keyboard, that's a different character, on your keyboard. So I imagine pressing that doesn't slice the clip, because it's not a / character

But are you saying that if you use Shift and 7, that *doesn't* slice the clip either? Or does that work? And does that key have the / character drawn on it, on your keyboard, or not?

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Yes, that is also true, but I can live with not naming my tracks in Swedish, but it is really annoying reading the manual and trying to learn a software when the keys in the manual does not "work".
JonasB wrote:Swedish user here as well. In my case the shift-7 on a macbook pro did not slice the clip. Also Swedish keyboard. Since I have both the US and Swedish keyboards well ingrained in my fingers i switched to the US one.

But on the same note, and possibly related - the Swedish characters åÅ, äÄ and öÖ aren't encoded properly, so when I name clips/songs with those, it is encoded with some erroneous symbols. Exporting files etc from these projects with weird looking names works nice though, and the exported files has the proper umlauts; so maybe it is just a poor choice of font on Waveform?

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GearNostalgia wrote:Yes, pressing SHiFT+7 is not easy when the combo is supposed to be SHIFT+/ that is like a loop into loop. You can not press SHIFT twice at the same time :)
Okay, i'm finally with you ... you mean the CTRL +SHIFT+/ keyboard shortcut to split a note, I thought you meant the / shortcut to split a clip. Yeah, I can see how that would be kinda impossible ... ;)

I've worked around this by literally never having used the split a note keyboard shortcut, and I didn't even know it existed till I looked at the list just now. Fair play though, you've got a point, that's not a great shortcut key combo to choose ...
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Puh, finally ;) :hug:
chico.co.uk wrote:
GearNostalgia wrote:Yes, pressing SHiFT+7 is not easy when the combo is supposed to be SHIFT+/ that is like a loop into loop. You can not press SHIFT twice at the same time :)
Okay, i'm finally with you ... you mean the CTRL +SHIFT+/ keyboard shortcut to split a note, I thought you meant the / shortcut to split a clip. Yeah, I can see how that would be kinda impossible ... ;)

I've worked around this by literally never having used the split a note keyboard shortcut, and I didn't even know it existed till I looked at the list just now. Fair play though, you've got a point, that's not a great shortcut key combo to choose ...

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Is there an exhaustive list somewhere of key combinations that aren't available around the world? Presumably "/" isn't the only key missing from some keyboards?

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