[YoumuChan]

Shift key is widely used in Eastern Asian input methods to switch between English and Asian scripts. Pressing Shift while holding Alt is the way to cycle through different input methods on windows systems. Using shift key is a decent idea for Latin script users, but is terrible for Asian script users.

[robin_reala]

That’s a less likely setup for a GOV.UK user though.

[YoumuChan]

Yet the gov.uk website about domestic abuse has a Chinese version (among other languages which I imagine also requires different setups): https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help.z...

I don't think gov.uk would admit that they want to exclude those users.

[nottorp]

Which Latin script? :)

Everyone on the nearby continent has some accented characters and possibly both English and their national keyboard installed.

Incidentally, this is a major complaint with smartphone OS designers that only speak English and don't realize there are places where people mix languages daily. That predictive spell checker should be configurable to accept more than one language at a time...

[tuetuopay]

And there's no need to be to speak some "obscure" language (from the point of view of the US-centric designers) to hit this issue. iOS got better at mixed french / english, but it still cannot prevent itself from correcting "the" (the english the) to "thé" (french for tea). Oh well.