Shortcut keys broken when using a non-English/US/QWERTY keyboard layout

[viorels]

Describe the problem

On Romanian keyboard layout, Ctrl+F triggers an "Auto Format" (as Ctrl+T) instead of "Find".

The Romanian keyboard layout is very similar to US layout, except some AltGr combinations, so this should not happen.

To reproduce

1. Set keyboard layout to Romanian/Romanian.
2. Open Arduino IDE.
3. Press the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut.

🐛 The "find" dialog does not open.
🐛 The sketch is auto formatted.

Expected behavior

The "find" dialog opens when the Ctrl+F keyboard shortcut is pressed.

Arduino IDE version

2.2.1

Operating system

Linux

Operating system version

Ubuntu 22.04

Additional context

Similar shortcut keys being switched happen on US/Colemak layout (Ctrl+S and Ctrl+R are mixed). But maybe I should report that in a different bug?

Additional reports

• Save sketch does not work with CMD+S on macOS (12.6.5) with Swiss German keyboard #2029
• Shortcuts don't work with non-English keyboard layouts #2490

Related

• Nordic keyboard layout not supported for keyboard shortcuts #1694
• Key number 1 doesn't work when using QWERTY Portuguese keyboard layout #1047
• Keyboard bindings do not work properly after change to different keyboard layouts #989

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Keywords

• "keybinding"

• "key binding"

• "hotkey"

• "hot key"

• "accelerator"

• "key combination"

• "key sequence"

• "key chord"

• "shortcut key"

Issue checklist

• I searched for previous reports in the issue tracker
• I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest nightly build
• My report contains all necessary details

[tobiasBora]

Can confirm this is extremely annoying. In the french layout, A is Q, so typing Ctrl-A to select everything will… close the program without warning (dataloss here!). Similarly, copy/pasting in bépo produce unwanted behaviors.