Using shortcuts on non-latin keyboards - is it going to be solved?

I googled that a lot of people have inconvenience with the fact that keyboard shortcuts become unavailable when switching to non-english keyboard. E.g. after adding cyrillic keyword I need to switch back to english keyboard to go on working with LR.
I saw LR1, LR2, LR3 and LR4. This problem always annoyed users all over the world.
What's the current situation with it? Is someone going to solve this?
I don't want to install plugins. I don't want to map custom keyboard shortcuts. I just want to have shortcuts working on any keyboard layout. Is it possible?

Go to [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html Download Firefox v3.6.17] and download it to the desktop.
Then go to Add/Remove Programs, scroll down to '''Mozilla Firefox''' and remove it, choosing to keep your bookmarks, customizations etc., (don't checkmark the box).
Then reboot and delete the folder called '''Mozilla Firefox '''at this location: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
Finally run the installation file you downloaded to the desktop earlier.
Your bookmarks, customizations etc., are maintained in a different location and will become available to you again once you complete the installation.
After you complete the installation, go to the [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ Plugins Check] page and update those where necessary.
However, before you go that route, here are a few tips to make FF4 look like the previous version.
* Right click a blank part of the tab bar and click "Tabs on top" to remove the checkmark. Tabs will subsequently reappear below the search bar.
* Repeat the same steps, but click the top one called "Menu bar". This will reinstate the text links at the top.
* To rearrange the layout, repeat the same steps again and choose "Customize". A panel will open and while that remains onscreen, you can move elements like toolbars, buttons etc around and place them anywhere you wish. You can also drag anything you don't like into that panel and add anything you want by dragging it out of there.
* To replace the status bar at the foot of the page, install this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/
Firefox 3.6.17 will be supported for a while yet, but will eventually fall by the wayside.

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I have been using Lightroom for some time now, and as with all programs I want to use the keyboard shortcuts.
These are fairly straightforward in LR, and most of them work like a charm, but some, which use non-alphanumeric keys such as [ ] / \ - = and many more do not work on a non-US keyboard (in this case Danish). Most of these keys have moved around quite significantly on my keyboard, and not only are they mapped differently, but the physical layout of the keyboard (and labeling of course) is also different from the standard US-keyboard.
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Martin,
I assume you're using LR in English (I don't think there's Danish)?
You can achieve what you want by building/modifying the TranslatedStrings.txt file with your modifications in there. For all languages LR is translated into, such a TranslatedStrings.txt file exists (in the "\Resources\xx\" directory below the program installation path), but for English it would have to be created (there is no \en\ directory below\Resources\).
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The problem is to find out what you have to write into there. For this, you could take lines out of a TranslatedStrings.txt file of another language (i.e. German), and put them (possibly changed) into the English file. Note that only changes must be present in TranslatedStrings.txt, the rest comes from the program.
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I changed it to be
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because # is not accessible without a modifier key on the German keyboad, hence the shortcut does not work,
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Message was edited by: b_gossweiler (minor text corrections)

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