In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 2019-03-13 06:02, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
This minor manifestation of my keyboard problems is particularly
puzzling. Whether it's connected with the other funnies, I don't know:
it doesn't seem to be correlated!
This one manifests as an inability to type the character ) [close
round bracket]. On my keyboard layout, it is the shifted 0 (zero)
character. [UK layout - though I think that's where it is on lots of
others, such as the default (US) one.] It is not a hardware fault: I
can type a zero, and I can use the shift keys with any other key
where doing so produces a different character (I think that's all keys).
I don't know what (if anything specific) starts it (the fault is
always absent after a reboot); I also don't know what stops it -
after a while, though it _may_ well be something I do rather than
just random, I find I can type ) again. I can paste a ) no problem
[my signature contains at least one, so finding one to copy's no
problem), but obviously that's tedious.
Has anyone else experienced this weird one? (Does anyone know what
its cause is?)
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You may have a machine with multiple (but hidden) keyboard options, and
some key combination (maybe caused by "fat-fingers" typing) triggered a
keyboard change. That's what often happened on this machine (Canadian
English/French) until I fiddled with the Keyboard via Control Panel.

HTH & Good luck,

Ah, that sounded _very_ promising! But no cigar I'm afraid. Under Region
and Language, Keyboards and Languages, Change keyboards..., I have:
under Default input language, "English (United Kingdom) - United
Kingdom", from a drop-down list that only has that one entry in it;
under Installed services, it shows under Keyboard, only one bullet:
United Kingdom, and under Other, four bullets - Writing Pad, Write
Anywhere, Drawing Pad, and Ink Correction (I don't know what any of
those are).

Your "fat fingers" suggestion sounds hopeful, in that I "feel" that both
the start and end of the funny behaviours both occur when I'm doing
something, rather than at random (I just don't know _what_).
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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