From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dieter Wilhelm Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Strange Problem with keypresses on Win32 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:17:48 +0200 Message-ID: <8764hwc7f7.fsf@hans.local.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153167598 7310 80.91.229.2 (17 Jul 2006 20:19:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:19:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 17 22:19:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2ZXn-0004zk-B0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:18:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2ZXm-0008Ap-Mg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2ZXb-0008AN-0r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:18:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2ZXa-00089w-3d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2ZXZ-00089e-OB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:18:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.186] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G2ZaJ-0004pI-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.167.12.3] (helo=duenenhof-wilhelm.de) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwpI-1G2ZXW2iCX-0000GK; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:18:03 +0200 Original-Received: by duenenhof-wilhelm.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E36EA74634; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 22:17:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2006 21:56:30 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:d7ab225b98a136e1c2910381f940ecb9 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36023 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: exits funnel >> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:02:59 -0700 >> >> > Hmm.. q for a and w for z? Sounds like your keyboard got switched to French >> > to English or vice versa. In Windows, you can change languages (keyboards) >> > easily, though I've forgotten the keyboard shortcut. Your task bar might >> > indicate the current language as Fr or En. >> [...] >> Thanks for the reply. I'm pretty sure that your theory isn't altogether >> right because when I switch applications, there are no problems so the >> issue seems to be limited to Emacs. > > Please note that input language is a per-application setting on > Windows. So, if you inadvertently switch the language while typing > into Emacs, only Emacs will be affected. > >> Still, it might be a step in the >> right direction. One thing which makes the problem difficult to solve >> is that I can't reproduce it, it just (seems) to occur randomly. > > Next time it happens look at the language indicator in your system > tray. Lately I caught a similar problem on XP. Ansys WorkBench (a finite element program) has in it's latest version big problems with adjusting legends. I got a hint from the support hot-line to change the input language (from German to Swiss German). From then on my CVS-Emacs takes trips from time to time (seemingly at will) into Switzerland and I have to toggle the input language in the system tray back to the German keyboard layout. Needless to say that its not possible to switch off this behaviour completely in the language section in the system folder, I tried but didn't succeed. -- Best wishes Dieter Wilhelm Darmstadt, Germany