(Azerty keyboard) @ and # typing are deactivated in Dynalist?

Thanks for your reply.

First of all, please do not act like we’re here to make your day harder. That doesn’t help with communicating or solving the problem.

You said:

where I sent you a link to the help page (http://help.dynalist.io/locale-shortcuts/), you said that you’ve read it and thought it’s not relevant.

The first paragraph wrote

If you’re using a keyboard layout that’s not English, default shortcuts may interfere with your normal usage such like typing a certain character in your language. For this consideration, we’ve changed some shortcuts for the following keyboard layouts.

I think it clearly describes your problem (you’re using an non-English keyboard layout, and you’re having trouble entering certain characters). I agree it doesn’t explain why this option is needed, but I don’t think it’s necessary to teach people a history and technical lesson on our help center page.

Your second point seems to be that

Well, we never intended to. There are so many keyboard layouts in this world that we cannot design a shortcut system that work for all of them. After we designed the shortcut system, it’s bad to change it either, since many users have already gotten used to the existing shortcuts.

So after discovering the keyboard layout problem, we added this option. It worked fairly well. From time a time a user would ask us about it and go home content with the solution. An example: Translations - Language option - #2 by Milosz_Mista

We have nothing against non-QWERTY. If anything, we tried to embrace them by adding these options so it’s possible for non-QWERTY users to use Dynalist. It makes us sad and hurt that you think we’re messing up with AltGr.

Thanks the patience and understanding. Have a nice day.

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