From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jerry Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: incorrect character display when typing. Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 07:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <23f04b9c-452e-4944-9044-8637c96d6782@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> References: <11f645aa-46de-4fe8-93a6-61084c26bded@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> 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 1210948924 29322 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2008 14:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:42:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 16:42:39 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 1Jx18A-0001kV-2f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 16:41:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37274 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jx17Q-0001k3-MG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2008 10:41:12 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 145.221.24.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1210947931 30137 127.0.0.1 (16 May 2008 14:25:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:25:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=145.221.24.8; posting-account=TRuMdwoAAAB4DAV039FgdJGNL-YaSWz5 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 S1PS,1.1 S1PS Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158707 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:54074 Archived-At: On May 15, 4:15 pm, Jason Rumney wrote: > 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. 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!