Keyboard plug uses weird symbols to display shortcuts

[Samu Nuutamo]

When looking at the shortcut list the only modifier key which is obvious to me is the "Ctrl" key.

Symbols which I can't find on my keyboard:

⌘ I know this is a mac symbol, but i'm running a pc like majority of elementary users. I don't know what key it represents.
⎇ Maybe this is "alt"? could be easily mistaken for a "shift" as both have an arrow going upwards

Other symbols which exist on my keyboard but still confuse me because I have not seen them used before in text:

↹ I couldn't figure this out without looking at the keyboard
⇧ This is probably the easiest to figure out, but still a bit weird to see it as a symbol

Proposed solutions for this usability problem:

a) Replace symbols with textual versions (like "alt", "shift", "tab", etc)
b) Show a legend in all the shortcut views which tells what the symbols mean

I'd personally like (a) as there is no ambiguity.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

I'm going to confirm this but only partially. We legally cannot use the windows symbol as it is a registered trademark. We can however use the saint john's arms (⌘) since it is not a trademarked symbol. This represents the Command, Super, Meta, etc key. The naming is not consistent across all platforms, but it should be pretty apparent that this is *the* special key.

However I agree that the alt/option, tab, and shift symbols probably aren't as immediately recognizable as just writing "Alt" "Tab" "Shift"

[quassy (quassy)]

The Windows Key is by convention referred to as Super or Command in the Linux world, both are much more obvious than the "Interchange" symbol. Especially because command/cmd is actually also written on ⌘-keys of Apple keyboard, I would propose changing ⌘ to cmd or command.