Strange Keyboard behaviour - SOLVED
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My wife has a 2-month old Fujitsu-Siemens laptop, whose keyboard - specifically the " ' " (single inverted comma) key, (left of Enter key) - is doing strange things. When you press the key once, it does nothing. When you press it a second time, it gives two single inverted commas. The behaviour is the same for the built-in keyboard and using an external USB keyboard, and the same in Word, Notepad, etc. My only idea is that it might be set up for some strange European language, which uses this behaviour for accented characters. I have not tested for this (eg. by " ' " then "a") since she has the laptop with her. Any suggestions what might cause this? -- modified at 7:33 Wednesday 8th February, 2006 SOLUTION: Daniel Turini suggested that the keyboard layout should be changed from "US - International" to "English - US". That fixes the problem.
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My wife has a 2-month old Fujitsu-Siemens laptop, whose keyboard - specifically the " ' " (single inverted comma) key, (left of Enter key) - is doing strange things. When you press the key once, it does nothing. When you press it a second time, it gives two single inverted commas. The behaviour is the same for the built-in keyboard and using an external USB keyboard, and the same in Word, Notepad, etc. My only idea is that it might be set up for some strange European language, which uses this behaviour for accented characters. I have not tested for this (eg. by " ' " then "a") since she has the laptop with her. Any suggestions what might cause this? -- modified at 7:33 Wednesday 8th February, 2006 SOLUTION: Daniel Turini suggested that the keyboard layout should be changed from "US - International" to "English - US". That fixes the problem.
That's the normal behavior for accent character keys (see, I can do â, á and à this way). to get the accent character itself, press the accent key and space. There should be a separate "single quote" key. However, every keyboard mfg great and small sees a need to deviate from the standard layout - I've seen (and touched) so many abominations I could write a book.
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My wife has a 2-month old Fujitsu-Siemens laptop, whose keyboard - specifically the " ' " (single inverted comma) key, (left of Enter key) - is doing strange things. When you press the key once, it does nothing. When you press it a second time, it gives two single inverted commas. The behaviour is the same for the built-in keyboard and using an external USB keyboard, and the same in Word, Notepad, etc. My only idea is that it might be set up for some strange European language, which uses this behaviour for accented characters. I have not tested for this (eg. by " ' " then "a") since she has the laptop with her. Any suggestions what might cause this? -- modified at 7:33 Wednesday 8th February, 2006 SOLUTION: Daniel Turini suggested that the keyboard layout should be changed from "US - International" to "English - US". That fixes the problem.
normanS wrote:
Any suggestions what might cause this?
Probably her keyboard layout is set to "US - International". Just set it to "US" (IIRC) and the accented behavior will go away. I don't see dead pixels anymore... Yes, even I am blogging now!
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normanS wrote:
Any suggestions what might cause this?
Probably her keyboard layout is set to "US - International". Just set it to "US" (IIRC) and the accented behavior will go away. I don't see dead pixels anymore... Yes, even I am blogging now!
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That's the normal behavior for accent character keys (see, I can do â, á and à this way). to get the accent character itself, press the accent key and space. There should be a separate "single quote" key. However, every keyboard mfg great and small sees a need to deviate from the standard layout - I've seen (and touched) so many abominations I could write a book.
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighistIt may be normal in "non-English" Europe, but I never do accented vowels. When I type a single inverted comma, that's what I want! Daniel came up with the solution - the keyboard layout is set to "US - International", and setting it to "English - US" fixes the problem. That's what happens when you buy a PC with Windows pre-installed!
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Thanks - you are absolutely correct! I changed the setup on my work PC to US-International", and it behaves just the way that the laptop did, so I will fix it tonight.