9ev: pressing the key where American layouts have a slash will [open the search box]
bombcar: often the shortcuts will remain the same even on keyboards where those keys are nowhere near each other
You're objecting to opposite things: you don't like that the shortcuts stayed with the same symbols instead of staying with the physical key, and 9ev the other way around.
(And also 9ev is objecting to misleading documentation)
Yeah - and balancing the two is something often entirely overlooked and people stuck with the problem have to learn the options and try to determine “is this key the character or the key (in a US layout)”.
Issues like this are why often people just give up and learn US English enough to use the computer, then at least it’s tested and consistent.
bombcar: often the shortcuts will remain the same even on keyboards where those keys are nowhere near each other
You're objecting to opposite things: you don't like that the shortcuts stayed with the same symbols instead of staying with the physical key, and 9ev the other way around.
(And also 9ev is objecting to misleading documentation)