Internationalize the key binding for selecting a parent way

[1ec5]

ddf8682 changed the key binding for selecting a parent way (#8264) from ⌘↑ to | and made it so that repeatedly pressing | would toggle between a vertex and its parent way. | makes some sense on an English QWERTY keyboard, where | is strongly associated with { and }, but it’s problematic for users of other languages and keyboard layouts. For example, among Mac keyboard layouts:

• Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian – ⇧⌥1 requires three fingers
• Croatian, Slovene – ⇧⌥Ž requires three fingers on two hands
• French (AZERTY) – ⇧⌥L requires three fingers on two hands
• German (QWERTZ), Finnish, Spanish – ⌥7 requires two hands and is difficult to touch-type
• Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Swedish – no way to type |
• Polish – ⌥9 requires two hands and is difficult to touch-type
• Romanian – ⇧⌥Ț requires three fingers on two hands

⌘↑ would’ve been more universal while remaining reasonably intuitive to English speakers. It could’ve formed part of a system of arrow shortcuts for navigating “up” and “down” among nodes, ways, and relations. It would be pretty straightforward to restore ⌘↑ as an alternative key binding for |, but it wouldn’t make sense to keep the toggling behavior with ⌘↑ – it would be necessary to introduce a ⌘↓ as well. Separate ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ shortcuts would be easier to describe in help than the current | toggle.

[quincylvania]

@1ec5 Thanks for this followup, I did read your feedback and definitely think we need to resolve this before release!

[mbrzakovic]

Thanks @1ec5 on incredible descriptions, and for ensuring iD accessibility. I agree with your proposal above.