Issue 103197 - keyboard provides unwanted characters
Summary: keyboard provides unwanted characters
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.1
Hardware: PC Windows Vista
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: eric.savary
QA Contact: issues@framework
URL:
Keywords: needmoreinfo, oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-06-29 23:20 UTC by gavinrb
Modified: 2009-10-24 03:47 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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Description gavinrb 2009-06-29 23:20:03 UTC 
English speaking Canadian using a standard keyboard, either English (USA) or
English (Canada)selected, makes no difference.

/ types é, 
? types É 
< types '
> types . 
" must be struck twice, types "
' must be struck twice, again types "
[ must be struck twice, types ^^^^ 
] types ¸¸  
} types¨¨
\ types <   
} types >

All very annoying.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2009-06-30 07:24:38 UTC 
@ es: Any idaes on this?
Comment 2 eric.savary 2009-06-30 11:12:36 UTC 
Does this happen only in OOo?
Which keyboard locale (hardware) do you have on your desk?
Which keyboard layouts are listed under "Start - Control Panel - Regional and
Language Options - Keyboards and Languages - Change keyboards"?
Comment 3 eric.savary 2009-06-30 19:50:33 UTC 
Submitter confirmed by e-mail that tweaking the keyboard settings made the
problem disappear.
Comment 4 eric.savary 2009-06-30 19:50:43 UTC 
closed
Comment 5 bryancook20 2009-10-24 03:47:11 UTC 
I am seeing the exact same problem with both Writer and Calculator. I have an HP
laptop with Windows Vista purchased and used in Toronto Canada. The keyboard is
not Bilingual and the problem is only found in Open Office programs all other
programs work normally. It is resolved only after I restart the computer.

All language settings are in English(Canada. I Opened the Language settings
(tools-Options-language settings-Language) and set everything to English(canada)
and it seems fine for now.

This problem is probably related to the English(canada) setting or the bilingual
programing built into some Canadian computers. Please fix it in future models or
else I will have to learn how to type in French.