258448 - "Increase text size" keyboard shortcut fails on non-US-keyboard layout

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 198233

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Rudolf Bargholz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.8

I use a Swiss keyboard layout. The '+' character in this keyboard layout can be
typed by pressing SHIFT+1. In order to issue a CTRL++ to increase the text size
in Firefox 0.9.3 I have to press CTRL+SHIFT+1 . Pressing this keyboard
combination does not have the desired effect of increasing the text size.
Nothing happens. Pressing CTRL+- correctly decreases the size of the text in the
browser as '-' does not require a SHIFT to type the character, i.e. it is a
'normal' character.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pressed CRTL++ on a swiss layout keyboard


Actual Results:  
The text size did not increase

Expected Results:  
The software should have increased the text size

The german keyboard layout also has the '+' sign above the '1' , i.e. + =
SHIFT+1 so the problem ought to occur here as well.

Note, on a German or Swiss keyboard layout there are some characters that are
mapped when pressing the AltGr key, e.g. AltGr+E = Euro sign, AltGr+2=@, AltGr+3=# .

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Reporter: There's also a + on the numeric keypad ... that's one works.

Comment 2

[Rudolf Bargholz]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Reporter: There's also a + on the numeric keypad ... that's one works.

Notebook user :-) No numeric keypad. I have a Dell D800. When I press CTRL+Fn+-
(the 'numeric keypad' + is on the same key as the normal key -) then the
"Edit/Increase text size" keyboard shortcut works as it should. Thanks for
pointing me this workaround.

Regards

Rudolf

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

It's mentioned in bug 198233, but it's very difficult to assign keyboard
shortcuts that work on *all* keyboards.

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198233 ***