I'm using keyboard model "HP Internet Keyboard" with the "US English" layout, so '<' is actually produced with "Shift-,", and '>' is produced with "Shift-.".
So in reality, I should have written above "...KDE sees both 'Alt+Shift+,' and 'Alt+Shift+.' as 'Alt->'. It is important to note that I see this with _only_ the keybinding dialog. '<' and '>' are generated correctly for every other KDE application and input. Addtionally, 'Alt+Shift+,' produces no characters in any other KDE application.
Isn't this exactly the correct behaviour? On your keyboard (and mine, for that matter), "Shift+," == "<", and hence alt+shift+, == alt+<. There is no way to press an additional shift key to produce "shift+<" as shift needs to be pressed to get "<" in the first place.
I think the current handling is the most appropriate. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Regards,
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