Re: Strange Problem with keypresses on Win32

[exits funnel <exNOitsfunSPAMMYnel@yahoo.com>]

Drew Adams wrote:
>     I've been using the native windows Emacs (21.3.1) one Win2000 for
>     several months and there has been one intermittently recurring problem.
>       Every once in a while, I encounter a situation where the key I press
>     and the letter which appears on the screen aren't the same.  For
>     instance, I might press the 'a' key and see a 'q' or I might press the
>     'z' key and see a 'w'. I'm not sure if the same keys are affected each
>     time or even if the 'replacement' letters are the same.  The only
>     solution I've found is to shutdown Emacs altogether and restart it.
>     This can be more than a bit annoying if I have a lot of buffers open or
>     if I'm in the middle of, for instance, a debugging session.  Has anyone
>     else experienced this or know what the problem is?  Is there some
>     solution short of restarting Emacs?  Thanks in advance for any help
>     anyone can offer.
> 
> 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.
> 
> If my guess is right, this has nothing to do with Emacs, and you can get
> back to the language you want by clicking the task-bar menu (Fr or En). How
> the language got changed might have something to do with Emacs; I don't
> know.
> 

Hi Drew,

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.  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.  It's 
possible that it results from my fat fingering of some key combination. 
  I wonder if there is an emacs command to change the keyboard layout to 
French?

-exits