From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: incorrect character display when typing. Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 07:15:33 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <11f645aa-46de-4fe8-93a6-61084c26bded@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210864404 28797 80.91.229.12 (15 May 2008 15:13:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:13:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 15 17:14:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jwf1e-0007pj-Mx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 17:05:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40953 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jwf0u-0004KY-Q8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 11:05:00 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.67.23.108 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1210860933 26428 127.0.0.1 (15 May 2008 14:15:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:15:33 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.67.23.108; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158653 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:54019 Archived-At: On May 14, 4:51 pm, Jerry 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 =E9=F6=F3=EA=E5=ED=E3=F8=A2=E7=F4?=E2=E0=EF=F0=EE=EB=E4=FF=F7=F1= =EC=E8=F2=FC 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.