Keyboard characters switching in Gmail

[anthony]

I'm running WindowsXP.

Quite often recently, while typing messages in Gmail, I must

inadvertently hit a keyboard function combination which switches

keyboard characters, so that what I'm typing is total gibberish.

Trouble is, I don't know what key combination I've inadvertently hit

-- maybe it changes keyboard from Qwerty to Dorvak or such. Has anyone

else experienced this? Or found a keyboard combo to change it back? So

far the only way I can regularise things is to quit Gmail and start

all over again. Very frustrating, when typing in the heat of the

moment.....

 

[Bob I]

Is it ONLY in Gmail or does it continue to exihibit that behavior in

WordPad or Word or Outlook...?



anthony wrote:



> I'm running WindowsXP.

> Quite often recently, while typing messages in Gmail, I must

> inadvertently hit a keyboard function combination which switches

> keyboard characters, so that what I'm typing is total gibberish.

> Trouble is, I don't know what key combination I've inadvertently hit

> -- maybe it changes keyboard from Qwerty to Dorvak or such. Has anyone

> else experienced this? Or found a keyboard combo to change it back? So

> far the only way I can regularise things is to quit Gmail and start

> all over again. Very frustrating, when typing in the heat of the

> moment.....

 

[John Wunderlich]

anthony wrote in

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m:



> I'm running WindowsXP.

> Quite often recently, while typing messages in Gmail, I must

> inadvertently hit a keyboard function combination which switches

> keyboard characters, so that what I'm typing is total gibberish.

> Trouble is, I don't know what key combination I've inadvertently

> hit -- maybe it changes keyboard from Qwerty to Dorvak or such.

> Has anyone else experienced this? Or found a keyboard combo to

> change it back? So far the only way I can regularise things is to

> quit Gmail and start all over again. Very frustrating, when typing

> in the heat of the moment.....



You may have more than one keyboard enabled and you hit the key

combination that switches between them (usually Shift + Left Alt, or

Shift + Ctrl). To check your settings,



Control Panel->Regional and Language Options -> Languages (Tab) ->

Details -> Settings (Tab) -> Key Settings

Select each entry in the "Action" window then hit "Change Key Sequence"

to see if there is a key assignment to switching languages.



Switching keyboards this way only applies to the currently-enabled

window. New windows always open using the default keyboard.



HTH,

John