Please give me back my Alt-Shift keyboard shortcuts

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  jpluimers · Member · Jul 19, 2012 at 1:09 pm

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  Dear @wordpressdotcom,

  Don’t steal my Alt keyboard shortcuts and revert to Alt-Shift shortcuts.
  You are breaking all my browsers GUIs!

  For eons, Alt-Shift-d was “strike through”.
  Recently you changed this to Alt-d, disabling the browser’s existing Alt-d (which for most Windows browsers is to “put the focus to the address bar”).

  You violate the nr 1 UI rule: don’t mess with existing shortcuts.
  As a paying customer, I expect you to keep basic things like these working.
  So please revert them back ASAP.

  –jeroen

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  russelrayphotos · Member · Jul 19, 2012 at 1:54 pm

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  It’s not just the keyboard shortcuts.

  A couple of days ago they changed the HTML tab to a TEXT tab. Ever since then keyboard shortcuts have been all messed up as well as many of the what-had-been standard HTML formatting codes.

  As an example, previously I could click on a bullet and each time I hit Enter for a new line, I’d get a new bullet line. Not anymore. Now every line is under just one bullet until I unclick the bullet.

  Frustrating.

  Also, I think you need to edit something in your title and/or the first two lines of your post. You title wants your Al-Shift keyboard shortcuts back, but your first line says you want your Alt shortcuts back.

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  jpluimers · Member · Jul 19, 2012 at 2:16 pm

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  Thanks. I know see why title and first lines are confusing (:

  WordPress.com now steals the Windows Alt shortcuts.
  I want back the WordPress.com Alt-Shift shortcuts.

  And not so nice to learn the HTML (now text) is messed up too. Thanks for warning me on that.

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  em3projekt · Member · Jul 20, 2012 at 1:01 pm

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  wordpress wtf?!
  I use polish and I’m not able to use our special letters. I CAN’T WORK! :(

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  cauemf · Member · Jul 20, 2012 at 8:09 pm

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  Cmon, i’m brazilian! I use a macbook and the shortcut for “ç” is the same for “align center” (alt+C). It’s really annoying, I can’t write anymore!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 20, 2012 at 8:11 pm

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  I’m so sorry this is happening to you people. This thread is flagged for Staff attention and there’s no more that I can do for you.

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  jpluimers · Member · Jul 20, 2012 at 8:33 pm

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  This so much sounds that WordPress is aimed at English users only.

  Knock knock. The world is 7 billion people, of which more than 6.5 live outside the USA, and only max 1.2 billion speak English.
  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language)

  That is a total mismatch with the WordPress jobs “born in Texas” motto: http://automattic.com/work-with-us/

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  toread · Member · Jul 23, 2012 at 11:25 am

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  Ok, is there any workaround other than copypasting from text editor?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 30, 2012 at 2:29 pm

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  Thanks, everyone, for reporting this issue. The technical change that caused this problem has been reverted back to the way it was previously, so this behavior should no longer be happening. If you’re still having any issues, please let us know.

  We apologize for the inconvenience!

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  toread · Member · Jul 30, 2012 at 2:30 pm

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  thanks!

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  cauemf · Member · Jul 30, 2012 at 2:34 pm

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  Thanks so much!

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  swiatnacho · Member · Jul 31, 2012 at 2:50 pm

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  So anyway I still have this problem (just now I tried to write Polish letters and it changes only the toolbar: smaller/bigger). The problem seems to be in Firefox, not in G Chrome.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jul 31, 2012 at 3:01 pm

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  swiatnacho – thanks for letting us know, I’ll inform the team and get back to you.

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  jenia · Member · Jul 31, 2012 at 7:17 pm

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  @swiatnacho: could you please clarify which shortcuts you are using that create that effect? And which toolbar becomes smaller/bigger – the WordPress.com one, or another one?

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  jpluimers · Member · Jul 31, 2012 at 7:57 pm

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  Great, thanks!

  Now please also fix the bug that deletes valid XML from posts.

  See for instance here: http://wiert.me/2012/02/23/wordpress-xml-sourcecode-help-needed-forum-posts-gets-deleted/

  That bug is way overdue.

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  swiatnacho · Member · Aug 1, 2012 at 7:34 am

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  Hello Jenia,
  Example: I use alt+z to have Polish “ż”. It worked before. Now, the toolbar when I write new text is smaller. I made a photo:
  
  To have special Polish letters we use:
  alt+ z, alt+ x, alt+c, alt + e, alt + s, alt + l, alt + o, alt +a, alt +n.
  (both small and big).
  I think, we can’t have another shortcuts for them.
  Tomek

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  swiatnacho · Member · Aug 1, 2012 at 7:35 am

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  Sorry. That’s the link:
  

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  digitalmb2b · Member · Aug 1, 2012 at 10:57 am

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  The same issue here (FF 14.1).
  You basically cannot enter any text with polish programmer keyboard layout (Alt Gr + letter combination).

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Aug 1, 2012 at 1:34 pm

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  Thanks for the additional information. It’s possible that your Visual Editor is using a cached copy of the code – would you mind clearing your browser cache to make sure that’s not the culprit and let us nkow?

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  jenia · Member · Aug 1, 2012 at 4:18 pm

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  @jpluimers: I replied to your original question about posting XML source code here. To avoid confusion between multiple thread topics, please post any further questions or feedback in that thread — thanks!