What is the correct and culture independent way to handle Key in WPF?

Question

Hi,

I'm quite confused about handling of Key http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.input.key.aspx in a KeyEventArgs.
For example: I want to handle colon key (made on my Italian keyboard with dot + Shift), so I write some code like this

if ( e.Key == Key.OemPeriod && e.KeyboardDevice.Modifiers == ModifierKeys.Shift) {
    // Code 
}

But this approach isn't correct because work only with Italian keyboard. What is the correct and culture independent way to handle Key in WPF?

Answer 1

Have you tried handling the PreviewTextInput or TextInput events instead? These events should give you the text entered (which is device-independent) as opposed to the physical key pressed (which is device-dependent).