Solved Foreign Characters/Characters appearing.

[Fangus]

Hi there. This is an odd problem, whenever certain characters are used ("^ are just some) then a letter is pressed foreign characters appear.
I.E
When I press
" Then O it comes up as Ö, instead of "O, and so on.
Does anyone have any ideas, on how this could be fixed. I've checked in the regional/language settings, and in the G15 control Panel.
Thanks

 

[Kari]

I use English, German and Finnish keyboard layouts on a daily basis. Never had this kind of issue.

Could you please tell which language settings you are using?

Kari

 

[Fangus]

Keyboard is US-Internaional, Everything esle is UK English

 

[Kari]

Weird. I'm writing this using English (United States) kb-layout, I can not reproduce your issue: "O, not Ö. I had to switch to Finnish kb-layout to produce the Ö.

First place to start looking is to check English is you default keyboard layout.



Kari

 

[Fangus]

Yup it's set to US-International, which is the layout of my keyboard, however when I set it to any UK keyboard set, the problem goes away, but obviously that's a complete different layout

 

[Fangus]

OK, I just tried setting all my regional settings to US, but that had no effect. Anyone else have any suggestions?

 

[Kari]

Had a busy day at work, no time for SevenForums earlier.

Was just surfing and googling, trying to find an explanation. Only thing I found even remotely connected to your issue is a situation where user doesn't realize the the software (kb-layout) and hardware (keyboard) don't match. Happens to me all the time, my keyboard is German so when I type English and / or Finnish, I have to remember where certain characters really are because the layout don't match with the keyboard I'm using.

Back to topic: I really have no clue. I have tried to reproduce your issue, but it's a no go. Can't make that kind of typo.

I mention this thread to some of the more advanced members, maybe somebody knows something.

Kari

 

[SquonkSC]

Hi there. This is an odd problem, whenever certain characters are used ("^ are just some) then a letter is pressed foreign characters appear.
I.E
When I press
" Then O it comes up as Ö, instead of "O, and so on.
Does anyone have any ideas, on how this could be fixed. I've checked in the regional/language settings, and in the G15 control Panel.
Thanks

Fangus.

That is normal behavior.

ö "o

The ö is made like this:
shift+" then o = ö

shift+" then space, then o = "o

If you want to use the strange signs like " ^ ' etc,
and you don't want ö ô é

then you need to press space after the foreign sign.

greetings

 

[Barman58]

Does this issue happen everywhere or only in Word, for example, what appears to be happening is that the software is automatically creating special characters.

This functionality is sometimes available as an option in word processors but I did not think it was available in windows 7 natively

 

[Fangus]

Does this issue happen everywhere or only in Word, for example, what appears to be happening is that the software is automatically creating special characters.

This functionality is sometimes available as an option in word processors but I did not think it was available in windows 7 natively

Yup it happens everywhere.

Hi there. This is an odd problem, whenever certain characters are used ("^ are just some) then a letter is pressed foreign characters appear.
I.E
When I press
" Then O it comes up as Ö, instead of "O, and so on.
Does anyone have any ideas, on how this could be fixed. I've checked in the regional/language settings, and in the G15 control Panel.
Thanks

Fangus.

That is normal behavior.

ö "o

The ö is made like this:
shift+" then o = ö

shift+" then space, then o = "o

If you want to use the strange signs like " ^ ' etc,
and you don't want ö ô é

then you need to press space after the foreign sign.

greetings

Thanks, but this problem wasn't available from the start, and doesnt happen when I switch Keyboard layouts, do you know of anyway to switch it off, as it's annoying.

 

[SquonkSC]

Does this issue happen everywhere or only in Word, for example, what appears to be happening is that the software is automatically creating special characters.

This functionality is sometimes available as an option in word processors but I did not think it was available in windows 7 natively

Yup it happens everywhere.

Hi there. This is an odd problem, whenever certain characters are used ("^ are just some) then a letter is pressed foreign characters appear.
I.E
When I press
" Then O it comes up as Ö, instead of "O, and so on.
Does anyone have any ideas, on how this could be fixed. I've checked in the regional/language settings, and in the G15 control Panel.
Thanks

Fangus.

That is normal behavior.

ö "o

The ö is made like this:
shift+" then o = ö

shift+" then space, then o = "o

If you want to use the strange signs like " ^ ' etc,
and you don't want ö ô é

then you need to press space after the foreign sign.

greetings

Thanks, but this problem wasn't available from the start, and doesnt happen when I switch Keyboard layouts, do you know of anyway to switch it off, as it's annoying.

It's part of the US international keyboard.
We (the Dutch) use the US international by default. A Dutch keyboard doesn't exist anymore for many years.
We always use the foreign signs, since we are multilingual.

Chose the US keyboard, not the US international.
That should do the trick. (I hope)

 

[wallyinnc]

Fangus, US-International keyboard setup is what is doing it.
I am in XP so not all that I will say might be precise, but I don't think it should be very different:
Control Panel -> Regional and Language options -> in input languages click "details" -> Installed services: Add US keyboard layout
At this point you will have US-International and US. Delete US-International. It will tell you it cannot do it now, but US will then be the default one and if you delete US-International again it shoudl disappear
I hope it was clear enough

 

[SquonkSC]

Fangus, US-International keyboard setup is what is doing it.
I am in XP so not all that I will say might be precise, but I don't think it should be very different:
Control Panel -> Regional and Language options -> in input languages click "details" -> Installed services: Add US keyboard layout
At this point you will have US-International and US. Delete US-International. It will tell you it cannot do it now, but US will then be the default one and if you delete US-International again it shoudl disappear
I hope it was clear enough

Copycat.

j/k

 

[Fangus]

Does this issue happen everywhere or only in Word, for example, what appears to be happening is that the software is automatically creating special characters.

This functionality is sometimes available as an option in word processors but I did not think it was available in windows 7 natively

Yup it happens everywhere.

Fangus.

That is normal behavior.

ö "o

The ö is made like this:
shift+" then o = ö

shift+" then space, then o = "o

If you want to use the strange signs like " ^ ' etc,
and you don't want ö ô é

then you need to press space after the foreign sign.

greetings

Thanks, but this problem wasn't available from the start, and doesnt happen when I switch Keyboard layouts, do you know of anyway to switch it off, as it's annoying.

It's part of the US international keyboard.
We (the Dutch) use the US international by default. A Dutch keyboard doesn't exist anymore for many years.
We always use the foreign signs, since we are multilingual.

Chose the US keyboard, not the US international.
That should do the trick. (I hope)

That did it! Thank you very much!

 

[SquonkSC]

Yup it happens everywhere.


Thanks, but this problem wasn't available from the start, and doesnt happen when I switch Keyboard layouts, do you know of anyway to switch it off, as it's annoying.

It's part of the US international keyboard.
We (the Dutch) use the US international by default. A Dutch keyboard doesn't exist anymore for many years.
We always use the foreign signs, since we are multilingual.

Chose the US keyboard, not the US international.
That should do the trick. (I hope)

That did it! Thank you very much!

you're welcome.

 

[uty]

Thank you very much guys - that solved the issue here as well!!! All the very best to you!!!