[dba-Tech] International settings

The hot key for changing keyboard layout is ALT (left one) + SHIFT or a user specified one.
You could check in you control panel Country settings>languages  if you have multiple keyboard layouts installed. Remove those you not need, keep only the one you need so when hitting accidently the hotkey can not swap to another layout because there is only one.

But I find your changes pretty bizar at my knowledge not corresponding with specific country keyboard layouts (at least those I know).
I seem to remember there is a spyware/trojan/virus/keylogger having this effect, I believe a searchbar addin for IE.
So if I where you I would download the MS antispyware beta (or any other but the MS one is the best I ever seen) en scan your computer for these.



Greetings.

Erwin



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:51 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] International settings

I may have asked this and if so please forgive the redundancy. Repeatedly in
A2003 and Outlook 2003, I find myself in an international keyboard set through no conscious action of mine. Perhaps I am hitting some magic key now and then. I do not know.

The symptoms are:
I attempt to type a question mark and instead get É. 
I attempt to type an apostrophe and instead get ``.
I attempt to type a double quote and instead get ``.

It appears that the only apps so affected are Access 2003 and Outlook 2003.
If I exit and reboot the problem goes away... for a while. But it is guaranteed to re-appear.

What I would like is a procedure that undoes this reassignment and puts me back in my comfortable place. 

I have no idea what I`m doing that causes this behaviour, and no particular interest in tracing it and documenting it for the MS minions. I just want it to go away. To make it go away, I currently exit Access then re-open the app of interest, and it is gone, for a while. But if I spend an hour in the app, it is GUARANTEED to re-appear. Sometimes it happens in 3 minutes. 

Outlook and Access are affected. I can switch to Word or Excel and the keystrokes behave as you would expect. But something occurs in Access 2003 that is special.

IdeasÉ Look it just happened there! I attempted to type a question mark.

Let`s experiment... it just happened again. That apostrophe is backwards.
How about a word such as ``they`re``É

Good example! I am seeing double apostrophes where I intended double-quotes and instead of a question mark I am seeing a É (i.e. capital e acute). 

What the hell is causing thisÉ (there we go again! That last char was supposed to be a question mark). And how do I fix it for once and for all.

TIA,
A.


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