diff --git a/packages/app/src/keyboard/keyboard-shortcuts.test.ts b/packages/app/src/keyboard/keyboard-shortcuts.test.ts
index 2a7960c9b9..571474643b 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/keyboard/keyboard-shortcuts.test.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/keyboard/keyboard-shortcuts.test.ts
@@ -1027,6 +1027,71 @@ describe("unassigned shortcuts", () => {
   });
 
   describe("matching", () => {
+    it("dispatches a captured Russian letter shortcut on the same key", () => {
+      const event = keyboardInput({ key: "и", code: "KeyB", ctrlKey: true });
+      const combo = keyboardEventToComboString(event as KeyboardEvent);
+      expect(combo).toBe("Ctrl+B");
+      const bindings = buildEffectiveBindings({
+        "sidebar-toggle-left-ctrl-period-non-mac": combo!,
+      });
+
+      expect(resolveShortcut({ event, context: desktopNonMac, bindings }).match?.action).toBe(
+        "sidebar.toggle.left",
+      );
+    });
+
+    it("dispatches a recorded dotted-uppercase letter with Shift held", () => {
+      const event = keyboardInput({ key: "İ", code: "KeyS", ctrlKey: true, shiftKey: true });
+      const combo = keyboardEventToComboString(event as KeyboardEvent);
+      expect(combo).toBe("Ctrl+Shift+S");
+      const bindings = buildEffectiveBindings({
+        "sidebar-toggle-left-ctrl-period-non-mac": combo!,
+      });
+      expect(resolveShortcut({ event, context: desktopNonMac, bindings }).match?.action).toBe(
+        "sidebar.toggle.left",
+      );
+    });
+
+    it.each(["и", "И", "β", "ش", "ב", "é"])(
+      "matches default and recorded letter bindings for unsupported letter %s",
+      (key) => {
+        const event = keyboardInput({ key, code: "KeyB", ctrlKey: true });
+        expectShortcutResolution({
+          event,
+          context: desktopNonMac,
+          action: "sidebar.toggle.left",
+        });
+        const combo = keyboardEventToComboString(event as KeyboardEvent);
+        expect(combo).toBe("Ctrl+B");
+        expect(
+          resolveShortcut({
+            event,
+            context: desktopNonMac,
+            bindings: buildEffectiveBindings({
+              "sidebar-toggle-left-ctrl-period-non-mac": combo!,
+            }),
+          }).match?.action,
+        ).toBe("sidebar.toggle.left");
+      },
+    );
+
+    it.each(["v", "†", "Dead", "Unidentified", ""])(
+      "does not match an unrelated character or named key %s by physical letter",
+      (key) => {
+        expectNoShortcutResolution({
+          event: { key, code: "KeyB", ctrlKey: true },
+          context: desktopNonMac,
+        });
+      },
+    );
+
+    it("does not match non-letter bindings by physical key for unsupported letters", () => {
+      expectNoShortcutResolution({
+        event: { key: "ю", code: "Period", ctrlKey: true },
+        context: desktopNonMac,
+      });
+    });
+
     it("dispatches a captured Dvorak binding on the same logical key", () => {
       const event = keyboardInput({ key: "b", code: "KeyN", metaKey: true });
       const combo = keyboardEventToComboString(event as KeyboardEvent);
diff --git a/packages/app/src/keyboard/keyboard-shortcuts.ts b/packages/app/src/keyboard/keyboard-shortcuts.ts
index 4a843124f2..54d2b59cdb 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/keyboard/keyboard-shortcuts.ts
+++ b/packages/app/src/keyboard/keyboard-shortcuts.ts
@@ -1285,6 +1285,12 @@ function matchesKeyOrCode(combo: KeyCombo, event: KeyboardShortcutInput): boolea
   if (combo.shift === true && combo.shiftedKey !== undefined && eventKey === combo.shiftedKey) {
     return true;
   }
+  // Recording an unsupported letter (for example Cyrillic и on KeyB)
+  // stores its physical A-Z key. Dispatch must accept that same key without
+  // giving Latin layouts such as Dvorak a second physical-key binding.
+  if (/^[a-z]$/.test(combo.key) && /^\p{Letter}$/u.test(event.key) && !/^[a-z]$/.test(eventKey)) {
+    return event.code === combo.code;
+  }
   // macOS rewrites event.key when Option is held (Option+T -> "†",
   // Option+[ -> "“"), so Alt-bound letter / bracket bindings can only
   // match by event.code. Stay key-first for non-Alt bindings so Dvorak