incorrect character display when typing.

incorrect character display when typing.

[Jerry]

Hi I'm currently experiencing an unexpected change of characters when
typing. Normally it happens when I'm searching and navigating buffers
(using C-s, C-M-s, M-< etc) but I dont know what triggers it, I think
I've only seen it while browsing *scratch* but I'm far from sure.
anyhow at some point when I type "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm" emacs
displays éöóêåíãø¢çô?âàïðîëäÿ÷ñìèòü
which is not good, Control-key combinations are Working correct, but M-
x example gives M-x ó÷ôüçäó which of course is unparsable. Using the
menubar files for opening files, the files display correctly. Other
programs are also working correctly (I experience an out of the blue
locale change for the windows keyboard mapping in the past but that
affected all programs).

I tried emacs 22.1 and 22.2, doesnt make a difference, I completely
emptied the .emacs. Is there a quick solutions and explanation of
behavior above? Oh jah platform is windows XP.

Right now the only way to solve this is to restart emacs
many thanks in advance,

regards,
Jeroen.

Re: incorrect character display when typing.

[Joel J. Adamson]

Jerry <jeroendijkmeijer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi I'm currently experiencing an unexpected change of characters when
> typing. Normally it happens when I'm searching and navigating buffers
> (using C-s, C-M-s, M-< etc) but I dont know what triggers it, I think
> I've only seen it while browsing *scratch* but I'm far from sure.
> anyhow at some point when I type "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm" emacs
> displays éöóêåíãø¢çô?âàïðîëäÿ÷ñìèòü

How often does this happen?  Under any reliable circumstances?  Do you
perhaps have an Eastern European keyboard layout enabled?  What about a
compose key of some kind (that introduces a mode)?

I'm unfamiliar with how keyboard maps work on Windows XP, but I know I
got really screwed up when I enabled Greek for the sake of one λ
(lambda).

Joel

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Re: incorrect character display when typing.

[Jason Rumney]

On May 14, 4:51 pm, Jerry <jeroendijkmei...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi I'm currently experiencing an unexpected change of characters when
> typing. Normally it happens when I'm searching and navigating buffers
> (using C-s, C-M-s, M-< etc) but I dont know what triggers it, I think
> I've only seen it while browsing *scratch* but I'm far from sure.
> anyhow at some point when I type "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm" emacs
> displays éöóêåíãø¢çô?âàïðîëäÿ÷ñìèòü

Possibilities:

- Sticky Keys enabled and AltGr (or Left Control + Right Alt) pressed.

- A Windows keyboard layout switch triggered by a combination of keys
(Ctrl + Shift for example).

- An Emacs input method switch triggered by C-\

The latter two would definitely only affect the running Emacs, but I
am not aware of any Emacs or Windows input methods that would act like
this.  I'm not sure whether the first possibilty would only affect the
running Emacs, or whether the sticky key would be system wide, but it
might be worth investigating.

Re: incorrect character display when typing.

[Jerry]

On May 15, 4:15 pm, Jason Rumney <jasonrum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 14, 4:51 pm, Jerry <jeroendijkmei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi I'm currently experiencing an unexpected change of characters when
> > typing. Normally it happens when I'm searching and navigating buffers
> > (using C-s, C-M-s, M-< etc) but I dont know what triggers it, I think
> > I've only seen it while browsing *scratch* but I'm far from sure.
> > anyhow at some point when I type "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm" emacs
> > displays éöóêåíãø¢çô?âàïðîëäÿ÷ñìèòü
>
> Possibilities:
>
> - Sticky Keys enabled and AltGr (or Left Control + Right Alt) pressed.
>
> - A Windows keyboard layout switch triggered by a combination of keys
> (Ctrl + Shift for example).
>
> - An Emacs input method switch triggered by C-\
>
> The latter two would definitely only affect the running Emacs, but I
> am not aware of any Emacs or Windows input methods that would act like
> this.  I'm not sure whether the first possibilty would only affect the
> running Emacs, or whether the sticky key would be system wide, but it
> might be worth investigating.

Yeaah found it, thanks to a colleague who experienced same issue on
eclipse:
My windows install is Dutch so hopefully the comments make sense:
start->configuration->internationalization->languages->details-
>key(mapping?) (button on bottom of dialog) disable all key
configuration.
Remains the question why on earth this behavior ocured. Thanks for
your input!