Conflicts with Latin characters and symbols

The following table lists conflicts of this type that have been identified for Latin characters and symbols. See ApplicationGesture for more information.

Gesture Conflicts Rare conflicts Recommendation
Square
Lower case "o"
Curlicue
Lower case cursive e
Lower case cursive "b" and upper case "N"
The Curlicueapplication gesture is sometimes used for a cut command. Because this action generally occurs on existing content, looking to see whether it is written on top of some content helps distinguish the gesture from the underlying ink.
DoubleCurlicue
Lower case cursive "w", lower case cursive "u", the word be, or these letters in a word
The DoubleCurlicueapplication gesture is sometimes used for the copy command. Because this gesture is generally written on existing content, looking to see whether it is written on top of some content helps distinguish this gesture from the underlying ink.
Circle
Lower case "o", upper case "O", and the numeral "0"
SemiCircleLeft
SemiCircleRight
Lower case "n"
Lower case "m"
It is more likely that the SemiCircleRightapplication gesture conflicts with these letters.
If your application uses these application gestures for undo and redo commands, one solution is to check whether the undo stack has anything in it. The result helps determine whether the user is attempting a redo.
ChevronUp
Caret, "^"
ChevronDown
Lower case "v" and upper case "V"
Lower case "u" (when written without a tail)
ChevronLeft
Less than symbol, "<"
ChevronRight
Greater than symbol, ">"
Down
Lower case "l", lower case "i" (when written without a dot), upper case "I", numeral "1", and pipe symbol, "|"
Left
Dash, "-", and underscore, "_"
Right
Dash, "-", and underscore, "_"
DownRight
Upper case "L"
RightDown
Numeral "7"
Tap
Period, "."