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I dislike shortcuts with special characters, as its availability depends on the keyboard layout. It's quite common that the shortcut doesn't work when you have to use modifier keys to invoke it.

Some vendors make an effort to support non-US layouts, others not so much (e.g Adobe, and recently Microsoft).

As a shortcut junkie, I've even changed the OS keyboard layout to enable more shortcuts to work, and memorising the location of special characters by feel. But that's not exactly an intuitive UX.

As some examples of shortcut keys that usually brings me dread are: /, ~, [, ], ;, |

I much prefer shortcuts in the form of "ctrl + letter"