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Keyboard shortcuts and mnemonics or accelerators are not the same thing!

Over the time I’ve found that there are misunderstandings between the concept of the keyboard shortcuts and mnemonics. I will try to clarify this problem because the differences are important specially from the point of view of software localization.

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Are we supposed to localize keyboard shortcuts?

When I’m talking about keyboard shortcuts to things like Ctrl-S or even one key shortcuts like ‘A’ (used to Archive an email on Gmail). On the other side the mnemonics, known as hotkeys or the underlined letters in menus or … Continue reading

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