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  • F Fernando A Gomez F

    Mmm... that got me thinking... in my keyboard, the diacritic mark ´ usually doesn't appear unless I type it with a vowel (i.e. á). But that's only because my keyboard is configured to work with spanish language. If I change these settings, the ´ mark appears right away. Couldn't be something like this, that you have some obscure keyboard configuration? I mean, not only the language setting, but also the encoding?


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    Mircea Grelus
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    :wtf: My keyboard was set up as English (United Kingdom). When switching it to English (United States) it all works ok. I don't get it though, does the UK English has any special characters like the ones you mentioned? I'm not aware of that.

    Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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      :wtf: My keyboard was set up as English (United Kingdom). When switching it to English (United States) it all works ok. I don't get it though, does the UK English has any special characters like the ones you mentioned? I'm not aware of that.

      Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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      El Corazon
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      ahhhh, but MS and UK are currently in a tizzy. you might have accidentally stepped on the battlefield... ;)

      _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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      • M Mircea Grelus

        So I've installed Vista in a virtual machine, and a strange thing is happening: I cannot type single quotes. It will simply not display them. Unless I type 2 times and double quotes will be displayed then. Is there a setting in Vista for disabling this? Or what the heck is happening. I've been playing with Visual Studio 2008 and this "feature" is driving me mad. Oh, and this is happening everywhere, notepad, VS 2008, run command, everywhere. I've googled but to no success. Any ideas?

        Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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        James Brown
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        If you turned your monitor upside-down you could use commas instead? Like this ,,,,,,,,,,,, just a thought..


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          If you turned your monitor upside-down you could use commas instead? Like this ,,,,,,,,,,,, just a thought..


          http://www.catch22.net

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          Mircea Grelus
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          :doh: stupid me. And here I was ... complaining.

          Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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            :doh: stupid me. And here I was ... complaining.

            Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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            :-D


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            • M Mircea Grelus

              :wtf: My keyboard was set up as English (United Kingdom). When switching it to English (United States) it all works ok. I don't get it though, does the UK English has any special characters like the ones you mentioned? I'm not aware of that.

              Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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              Fernando A Gomez F
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              Mircea Grelus wrote:

              does the UK English has any special characters like the ones you mentioned?

              Well, I'm not aware of something like that. A bug perhaps? Maybe any UK citizen here can explain that...


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              • M Mircea Grelus

                :doh: stupid me. And here I was ... complaining.

                Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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                El Corazon
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                Mircea Grelus wrote:

                stupid me. And here I was ... complaining

                It justifies developing in Australia, then you your monitor would be upside down from where it is now, so it should work. ;) See if your boss goes for it!

                _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                  Mircea Grelus wrote:

                  stupid me. And here I was ... complaining

                  It justifies developing in Australia, then you your monitor would be upside down from where it is now, so it should work. ;) See if your boss goes for it!

                  _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                  I'd take a development job in Australia any day! Be it developing sideways, backwards, downwards, crosswords, either as a reference to Australia or any other country ... Any offer? :) :-> man I love the summer and seaside.

                  Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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                  • M Mircea Grelus

                    So I've installed Vista in a virtual machine, and a strange thing is happening: I cannot type single quotes. It will simply not display them. Unless I type 2 times and double quotes will be displayed then. Is there a setting in Vista for disabling this? Or what the heck is happening. I've been playing with Visual Studio 2008 and this "feature" is driving me mad. Oh, and this is happening everywhere, notepad, VS 2008, run command, everywhere. I've googled but to no success. Any ideas?

                    Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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                    Pete OHanlon
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                    Apparently it's a ploy by Microsoft to p*ss off people like me who have Irish surnames. The alternative explanation is that it's there as part of the security upgrade - no more SQL Injection attacks.

                    Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                      Apparently it's a ploy by Microsoft to p*ss off people like me who have Irish surnames. The alternative explanation is that it's there as part of the security upgrade - no more SQL Injection attacks.

                      Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                      Mircea Grelus
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                      :laugh: That must be a bug though. Cause if I press ' and then o it ends up as ó; or " and o => ö. Though I doubt UK English has these characters.

                      Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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                      • M Mircea Grelus

                        :laugh: That must be a bug though. Cause if I press ' and then o it ends up as ó; or " and o => ö. Though I doubt UK English has these characters.

                        Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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                        Pete OHanlon
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                        Ah - it sounds to me as though the apostrophe is acting as a sticky key. In other words, you press the apostrophe and then you can use it to create an accented character.

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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          Ah - it sounds to me as though the apostrophe is acting as a sticky key. In other words, you press the apostrophe and then you can use it to create an accented character.

                          Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                          Mircea Grelus
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                          Exactly. That would make sense for a language that uses these characters. But UK English? Come on ... it doesn't have them. Or does it? (old dialects or something?)

                          Cheers, Mircea "Pay people peanuts and you get monkeys" - David Ogilvy

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