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Re:Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? by Aldo_MX on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @01:48PM (#8037895)
Sadly, most cross-platform apps have a shortcut that gets triggered with altgr + key. I use US-International (a layout where almost every key has a symbol mapped to an altgr + key combination), and this is very frustrating, especially with accented vowels áéíóú and ñ (pretty common in Spanish).

This is why I always prefer dedicated windows apps over cross-platform apps.

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Re:Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? by ygra on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @02:02PM (#8037983)
Even dedicated Windows applications get that wrong on occasion, despite the UX guidelines stating that Ctrl+Alt should never be used for shortcuts for this very reason. Alas, people with a vanilla US keyboard layout won't ever notice ...

Most recent thing that bit me in that regard was ReSharper.

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