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On 2011-02-07, Hilary <hils@newearth.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> Jason Rumney wrote:
>> <blockquote>It was definitely caused within emacs, not by
>> windoze</blockquote> <p> What makes you so sure of that?  The
>> keyboard layout is under control of the operating system, not Emacs.
>> And any similar feature within Emacs (such as viper-mode) is not
>> easily triggered. </p>
>
> Emacs was the only application affected, and closing and restarting it
> (without changing any windoze settings) cured the problem.

BS.  Keyboard layout is per-application (at least on Win7).

Just make the layout visible on the taskbar - then you can use mouse
to switch back if it got accidentally mis-set.  I think it is called
the "language bar" or some such...

Hope this helps,
Ilya