This patch updates the description of the segmentation information field to include the command character (⌘) character for people on OS X.

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googleanalytics_osx.patch1.4 KBchristefano

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hass commented

Do you know what browsers are not able to display ⌘ in an UTF8 world? Not sure if we need to use an entity or if we should better write "control key".

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hapydoyzer commented

I think it`s better to remove this help at all. Settings is provided for web administrators, not for users.
We don`t need to teach webadmins how to use browsers :)

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hass commented

Good idea, too :-). Aside - have core such help texts? I found a few in contrib... if it comes to Mac they write "control key" or something similar...

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christefano commented

I agree that removing the text is also a good option.

Do you know what browsers are not able to display ⌘ in an UTF8 world?

The command character doesn't show up in my virtual machines running the latest versions of Windows 2000 and XP (I haven't tried Vista), so it looks like I'm missing a language pack. I think it's likely that a lot of other people are, too.

Not sure if we need to use an entity or if we should better write "control key".

I don't know if I should have said before, but trying to select multiple list items with the control key down won't work in OS X. Clicking with the control key down in OS X is like a right-click in Windows or Linux.

So much for a minor issue!

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hass commented
Status: Needs review » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

I'm not a Mac user, but could you please take a look to this image http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AppleCtrl.jpg? For me it looks like Apple computers have now an CTRL control key... can you confirm? If this is the case - I don't like to change the string as this would break the translation and it seems less important to me what symbols are printed on outdated mac hardware if new hardware also have CTRL keys... :-)

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Priority: Minor » Normal
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Needs review

Yes, Macs have control keys; also shift, option/alt (one key), and command keys. They have had those for a long time.

But what christefano said in #4 is important, the ctrl key on the Mac does not allow you to use multi-select widgets. The ctrl key is used on single-button mice to alter the button click to be a "right" click.

The correct key to use on a Mac when using multi-select widgets is the "command key".

If Windows can't display a “⌘” symbol without the proper "language pack", then maybe you should use the "command key" text.

However, if we're talking translation issues, I don't know how hard "command key" is to translate, but ⌘ is pretty easy to translate. ;-)

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hass commented

⌘ works on windows with an entity... for the next release we can change this text.

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hass commented
Status: Needs review » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.