Interesting question. Yoshiki, how does the Nihongo image deal with shortcuts? It should have the same problems given that Squeak shortcuts are handled as (translated) keystrokes.
This is what i came up with... i am thinking of translating the Unicode chars to ANSI below 127 at the VM side before entering the image. I think it can be done. Thus, the charCode deta member, the third member of evtBuf is always going to have the correct ANSI values for the shortcuts and everything, no matter what locale the keyboard is turned to. I am working on it.
Christos