New typing behaviour with Windows 7.

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:44:12 -0400, Stan Brown
<> wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:05:29 +1000, Peter Jason wrote:
>>
>> The typing characteristics have changed.
>>
>> EG: if I want to type " this does not appear on the screen
>> immediately but only after the cursor moves on. The same occurs with
>> other characters.
>>
>> How do I turn off this feature, and what good is it anyway?
>
>
>Check your regional settings (search Regional Settings, select, then
>look at the Keyboards and Languages tab). You have input set to some
>other language than English, one in which the " is a dead key. I bet
>if you type " and then letter O it will come out as O with a
>diaeresis.

True. But I fixed it as described above.

"Alias" <.¡nval¡d> wrote
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> On 04/11/2011 01:39 PM, Paul wrote:
>> Peter Jason wrote:
>>> The typing characteristics have changed.
>>>
>>> EG: if I want to type " this does not appear on the screen
>>> immediately but only after the cursor moves on. The same occurs with
>>> other characters.
>>>
>>> How do I turn off this feature, and what good is it anyway?
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>
>> This doesn't exactly match your symptoms, but it might help. The
>> suggestion is to change the keyboard type from "United States -
>> International" to "US".
>>
>> http://www.bytesin.com/f25/windows-7...ffect-194.html
>>
>>
>> I had some similar, flaky behavior on the Windows 7 laptop. What
>> happened there, is I'm in Canada, and laptops here would be likely
>> to support both official languages. I don't have a problem with that,
>> except that Windows 7 would switch, all by itself, from one keyboard
>> layout option to another. Which caused one keyboard character to be
>> entirely wrong.
>>
>> I fixed that, by changing so that only one keyboard layout option was
>> shown. So it had no choice, but to leave the damn keyboard alone.
>> I suspect your problem could be related.
>>
>> When more than one keyboard layout option was available, I could
>> change the default to the correct value, but Windows 7 would change
>> it back again at random. I couldn't figure out what was going on.
>> The setting seemed to survive reboots, but perhaps half way
>> through a session, I'd start seeing garbage on the screen due
>> to the keyboard layout changing. Once I changed things so it only
>> had one option, that stopped the nonsense.
>>
>> Paul
>
> I

*PLONK*

On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:29:57 -0400, chrisv wrote
(in article <>):

> "Alias" wrote
>> I

> *PLONK*

Welcome to the club. It's nice in here, innit?

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"Joey from NY" <> schreef in bericht
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> On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:29:57 -0400, chrisv wrote
> (in article <>):
>
>> "Alias" wrote
>>> I
>
>> *PLONK*
>
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>
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2011 18:29:57 +0200, "chrisv" <>
wrote:

>"Alias" <.¡nval¡d> wrote
>news:4da2f075$...
>> On 04/11/2011 01:39 PM, Paul wrote:
>>> Peter Jason wrote:
>>>> The typing characteristics have changed.
>>>>
>>>> EG: if I want to type " this does not appear on the screen
>>>> immediately but only after the cursor moves on. The same occurs with
>>>> other characters.
>>>>
>>>> How do I turn off this feature, and what good is it anyway?
>>>>
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>>
>>> This doesn't exactly match your symptoms, but it might help. The
>>> suggestion is to change the keyboard type from "United States -
>>> International" to "US".
>>>
>>> http://www.bytesin.com/f25/windows-7...ffect-194.html
>>>
>>>
>>> I had some similar, flaky behavior on the Windows 7 laptop. What
>>> happened there, is I'm in Canada, and laptops here would be likely
>>> to support both official languages. I don't have a problem with that,
>>> except that Windows 7 would switch, all by itself, from one keyboard
>>> layout option to another. Which caused one keyboard character to be
>>> entirely wrong.
>>>
>>> I fixed that, by changing so that only one keyboard layout option was
>>> shown. So it had no choice, but to leave the damn keyboard alone.
>>> I suspect your problem could be related.
>>>
>>> When more than one keyboard layout option was available, I could
>>> change the default to the correct value, but Windows 7 would change
>>> it back again at random. I couldn't figure out what was going on.
>>> The setting seemed to survive reboots, but perhaps half way
>>> through a session, I'd start seeing garbage on the screen due
>>> to the keyboard layout changing. Once I changed things so it only
>>> had one option, that stopped the nonsense.
>>>
>>> Paul
>>
>> I
>
>*PLONK*



.....uh, well, Paul's method worked for me.

On 4/11/11, Stan Brown posted:
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:05:29 +1000, Peter Jason wrote:
>>
>> The typing characteristics have changed.
>>
>> EG: if I want to type " this does not appear on the screen
>> immediately but only after the cursor moves on. The same occurs with
>> other characters.
>>
>> How do I turn off this feature, and what good is it anyway?


> Check your regional settings (search Regional Settings, select, then
> look at the Keyboards and Languages tab). You have input set to some
> other language than English, one in which the " is a dead key. I bet
> if you type " and then letter O it will come out as O with a
> diaeresis.

That's only on odd-numbered days. On even-numbered days, it comes out
as o with an umlaut.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)