Re: accidentally changing keyboard layout

[Hils <hils@nospam.org>]

Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> 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

I've worked out now what happened. I'd been using M-% a lot, and didn't 
press the 5 in time to avoid windoze catching it and switching the 
language instead. (Probably trying to do it one-handed.) The console I 
checked it against is a wrapper around the command prompt which isn't 
affected by the language change. Two gotchas in one evening. We live and 
learn. Eventually. :-)