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Keyboard characters switching in Gmail

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anthony

Flightless Bird
I'm running WindowsXP.
Quite often recently, while typing messages in Gmail, I must
inadvertently hit a keyboard function combination which switches
keyboard characters, so that what I'm typing is total gibberish.
Trouble is, I don't know what key combination I've inadvertently hit
-- maybe it changes keyboard from Qwerty to Dorvak or such. Has anyone
else experienced this? Or found a keyboard combo to change it back? So
far the only way I can regularise things is to quit Gmail and start
all over again. Very frustrating, when typing in the heat of the
moment.....
 
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Bob I

Flightless Bird
Is it ONLY in Gmail or does it continue to exihibit that behavior in
WordPad or Word or Outlook...?

anthony wrote:

> I'm running WindowsXP.
> Quite often recently, while typing messages in Gmail, I must
> inadvertently hit a keyboard function combination which switches
> keyboard characters, so that what I'm typing is total gibberish.
> Trouble is, I don't know what key combination I've inadvertently hit
> -- maybe it changes keyboard from Qwerty to Dorvak or such. Has anyone
> else experienced this? Or found a keyboard combo to change it back? So
> far the only way I can regularise things is to quit Gmail and start
> all over again. Very frustrating, when typing in the heat of the
> moment.....
 
J

John Wunderlich

Flightless Bird
anthony <anthonyjhcnospam@netscape.net> wrote in
news:4698312f-d275-4c44-b98d-128c3bc3effd@t34g2000prm.googlegroups.co
m:

> I'm running WindowsXP.
> Quite often recently, while typing messages in Gmail, I must
> inadvertently hit a keyboard function combination which switches
> keyboard characters, so that what I'm typing is total gibberish.
> Trouble is, I don't know what key combination I've inadvertently
> hit -- maybe it changes keyboard from Qwerty to Dorvak or such.
> Has anyone else experienced this? Or found a keyboard combo to
> change it back? So far the only way I can regularise things is to
> quit Gmail and start all over again. Very frustrating, when typing
> in the heat of the moment.....


You may have more than one keyboard enabled and you hit the key
combination that switches between them (usually Shift + Left Alt, or
Shift + Ctrl). To check your settings,

Control Panel->Regional and Language Options -> Languages (Tab) ->
Details -> Settings (Tab) -> Key Settings
Select each entry in the "Action" window then hit "Change Key Sequence"
to see if there is a key assignment to switching languages.

Switching keyboards this way only applies to the currently-enabled
window. New windows always open using the default keyboard.

HTH,
John
 
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