keyboard characters get confused

[foxidrive]

Very occasionally I will be typing a command in TC and it looks like I have made a typo, but I haven't.
For example I type a _ and a ? appears instead. It is reproducible.

I restart TC and all is well again.

TC 6.02/6.03, OS is XP and I've only noticed it while typing non-alphanumerics.

Just FYI.

[SanskritFritz]

Probably you have two languages installed. Switch between them with Shift Alt IIRC.

[foxidrive]

It just reocurred and this is the keyboard mapping - view in a monospaced font. The lower lines are normal keystrokes, and yes Z/Y were interchanged. The Spacebar worked normally



^1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxzy°!"§$%&/()=?`ß´
`1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz~!@#$%^&*()_+-=

The characters (^,`,´) in the top row appeared twice, but only after pressing the key concerned twice. Pressing it once had no effect.


ü+öä,.-#Ü*ÖÄ;:_'
[];',./\{}:"<>?|

[foxidrive]

You are right! Shift alt does create that effect but I only have english installed, and I can't remap shift-alt.

I use shift-alt-enter frequently to see the folder totals and sometimes change my mind after pressing shift-alt.
Looks like I will have to be aware of that effect!

Thanks for the info.

[SanskritFritz]

Check Control Panel / Regional and Language Options / Languages tab / Text Services and Input Languages.

There you can see the installed keyboard languages.
I think there are more layouts installed, like US English, and International English or similar.
If you remove the unwanted keyboard, Shift Alt will have no effect anymore.

[foxidrive]

Bingo. Problem solved.

I had a number of keyboard languages installed, which I've no recollection of ever installing.

Thanks for your help.