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Bug 25888 - The definition of .key value of "RomanCharacters"
Summary: The definition of .key value of "RomanCharacters"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HISTORICAL - DOM3 Events (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Travis Leithead [MSFT]
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Reported: 2014-05-27 01:59 UTC by Masayuki Nakano
Modified: 2014-05-28 00:33 UTC (History)
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Description Masayuki Nakano 2014-05-27 01:59:44 UTC 
Current key value spec defines "RomanCharacters" as "The Roman Characters function key, also known as the 'Youngja' or 'Young' key" in "Keys specific to Korean keyboards" section.

I was thinking that this is the key of "Romaji" ("ローマ字") key of JIS keyboard which is Alt + "Hiragana". (Romaji means Roman character in Japanese)

So, I'm being confused now.

* Should D3E define new value for JIS Romaji key?
* Should "RomanCharacters" be shared between Korean keyboard and Japanese keyboard?

However, I don't know whether Korean keyboard actually has "RomanCharacters" key. I guess that the spec expects that it is used with Hanja key at closing Korean IME.

I'll investigate about this later.
Comment 1 Gary Kacmarcik 2014-05-28 00:33:12 UTC 
If these were 'code's, then they probably should be shared.

But since they're 'key's, it makes sense for them to be different.

Korean already has HangulMode for switching between Hangul <-> roman, so this key seems redundant.

We should move this into the Japanese section and rename it Romaji.
Comment 2 Gary Kacmarcik 2014-05-28 00:33:34 UTC 
Fixed in https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/dom3events/rev/2e356f0ff481