Strange keyboard behaviour

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Strange keyboard behaviour

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Has anyone else noticed an intermittent problem with typing special characters such as / ? [ ] ' " when creating posts here, but not misbehaving in any other applications?

It seems to happen and then resolve without any apparent rhyme or reason. At first I thought that my keyboard was going screwy (it's a French keyboard that I usually have set to act English), but it seems to fix itself without any intervention by me, so I'm not sure what's going on.
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None here.

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Nope, can't say I have, sorry.
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Re: Strange keyboard behaviour

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Ok, thanks, it might be a quirk of setting my language as English when using a French keyboard. Doesn't seem to have created an issue anywhere else though.
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Re: Strange keyboard behaviour

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Funny you should ask.



I am working on an old laptop that has a French keyboard. In case anyone was interested, Esc is Echap.

But I cannot find anything on this keyboard other than the regular stuff. it took me days to find the forward slash.

however these /';.,[] work even if that isn't what the key said it would do.
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C'est le FLQ, bien sur!
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Re: Strange keyboard behaviour

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Scooter wrote:Has anyone else noticed an intermittent problem with typing special characters such as / ? [ ] ' " when creating posts here, but not misbehaving in any other applications?

It seems to happen and then resolve without any apparent rhyme or reason. At first I thought that my keyboard was going screwy (it's a French keyboard that I usually have set to act English), but it seems to fix itself without any intervention by me, so I'm not sure what's going on.
I simply dont use them ;)
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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It's possibly caused by misuse of u's. ;)

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miss U's?

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Bless you!
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Re: Strange keyboard behaviour

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You rang?
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