Keyboard Layout Help?


  1. Posts : 198
    Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 9.04
       #1

    Keyboard Layout Help?


    Hi,

    So this is really frustrating me.

    I usually use the "United States - International" keyboard layout, since I like being able to do accents and use the Alt-GR key. However recently it has been causing problems and I'm not sure why.

    One of the biggest examples is the ' key, usually if I press it and then a space it types either ' or ", depending on if I press shift or not. Well, in Firefox, I have to keep pressing the key about 4 times before it finally types two 's and I have to erase one. Pressing space does nothing. And if I press shift+6, it types "^^", as in, the character twice.

    I could not figure out what was causing this, so I switched the layout back to US, and it works fine. But I simply cannot use US-International without it doing weird stuff. I tried "sfc /scannow", it found some problems and fixed them, but it's STILL doing the same thing.

    Additionally, it appears something else weird is going on as when I try to use ALT codes, they don't do what they're supposed to... like most of them make a heart (♥) instead of what they SHOULD be doing.

    I even tried making a custom keyboard layout, opening the normal US International on a completely different computer, then saving it and installing it on here, and it STILL does what I described above.

    Has anyone else had a problem like this? I'd really like to get it fixed as without a working keyboard it's kinda hard to do my everyday business...
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  2. Posts : 8,608
    Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit SP1
       #2

    You've followed all of this? How to use the United States-International keyboard layout in Windows 7, in Windows Vista, and in Windows XP

    Are you doing Alt codes with the numbers? A 'tild' is alt + 0152 ˜
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  3. Posts : 198
    Windows 7 Ultimate and Ubuntu 9.04
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Yep.
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