Return vs. Enter

[Sam Hain]

In the command-line docs I have written, we would avoid the whole localization issue by saying something like:
 
"At the command prompt, enter the following information."
 
That bypasses the issue of telling the user to press Enter or Return.

--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Joel Goguen <jtgoguen at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Joel Goguen <jtgoguen at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Return vs. Enter
To: "Jon" <me at jonwatson.ca>
Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Received: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 9:20 PM

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 21:55 -0400, Jon wrote:
> What is more important, in my opinion, how to reconcile what any given 
> user's keyboard may have written on the enter key. I have 4 keyboards
in 
> my house and they all have 'enter' written on them but I am in
Canada 
> and use the US keyboard. If I was somewhere else, I don't know what it

> would say.
> 
> Perhaps this is actually a discussion about localization as is seems 
> somewhat likely to me that what is printed on the enter key may be 
> different from region to region.
My keyboard doesn't have anything written on it, just the symbol.  The
keyboard beside me says "Enter" and has a similar symbol.  I
don't
remember seeing "Return" in many years, but maybe that's a
regional
thing.  There's situations where it makes more sense to me to say
"Return" instead of "Enter", but as someone has already
pointed out that
may date me :)

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Joel Goguen
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