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I was talking with someone the other day who is working on/with the new Finnish keyboard standard.
He was testing out an implementation of the standard and happened to notice that it was working well in Notepad and some other applications, but not working very well in Word.
Longtime readers might recall the first time I talked about the problem here, in the post "To start press the ALTGR key." Hmm... where's the ALTGR key?. In the footnote I put in there:
Every few months I start looking at the Word object model and its KeyBindings collection and related trivia to create a Word Add-in that will listen for keyboard changes and any time a WM_INPUTLANGCHANGE notification is received it would remove the Word shortcuts that conflicted with actual keyboard assignments. I find the undone project I was working on, get into it for a few hours, and then realize that this is something that the Word team or the Offce team ought to put together and build into the product. So I send off some mails and they agree with me and then it seems to go nowhere. A few months later it starts over again. Maybe one day one of us will have a finished solution for this problem. :-)
Well, I have started and stopped this project a few more times since then and have gotten people in Word/Office to agree that it would be a good idea to do something here, but neither I nor them have produced anything just yet (I will admit that I have not installed recent Office 12 builds to see if the problem is fixed there).
I should probably just finish up the add-in some day.
In the meantime, this can be considered yet another downside to multilingual keyboards beyond what I have mentioned before -- Word compatibility....
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