J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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_).
My laptop had both an English and French Canadian entry for keyboard
type, and under Windows 7, would unceremoniously switch modes in
mid-sentence. I never did figure out why. And it seemed to mess up
more than just a few accented characters. The fix was to reduce
the keyboard set to just English by removing the second one.
Without a second keyboard declaration, it could no longer "switch".
The laptop was intended for the Canadian market and our dual
languages. No problems have been seen since.
Since you have only one keyboard language declaration, that
probably isn't the problem. As there's no second option for
it to "leap to".
Paul