My laptop keyboard decided to switch slash and stuff to french characters...
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.. and I can't figure out how to change it back or how i did it. It's an HP and its from canada, and beside each symbol there is the french spelling of the word. Can someone help me?
How are you typing right now then
:pirate:
It only changed my slash and stuff for games, it used to work before.
Control Panel - Keyboard?
[QUOTE=SirZoloft]Control Panel - Keyboard?[/QUOTE]
Apparently my keyboard is still set on english. I checked that. I was hoping anyone would know about a toggle button.
[QUOTE=Snoobel]How are you typing right now then
:pirate:[/QUOTE]
French-English dictionary.
Have you tried simply restarting?
It worked when my laptop (also HP) messed up.
[QUOTE=Skullivan;8683884].. and I can't figure out how to change it back or how i did it. It's an HP and its from canada, and beside each symbol there is the french spelling of the word. Can someone help me?[/QUOTE]
I figured out why this goes on so frequently. There’s a keyboard combination that switches languages. Mine was set to Ctrl-Alt which gets hit occasionally. There’s two ways to turn it off
1. Near the bottom right of the screen is an icon of a keyboard. Left click and select US keyboard if it’s set to French. This turns it off but it doesn’t prevent it from getting switched again.
2. The permanent fix is to disable the key combination. There’s two ways to do this. Right click on the keyboard icon and left click Settings. Select the “Advanced Key Settings” tab. Click the “Change Key Sequence” button and select “not assigned”. Click OK a few times and you’re done.
If you cannot locate the keyboard icon you can get at this through the control panel. Go to Regional and Language control panel. Select the keyboards and languages tab and click the change keyboards button. This takes you to the language settings described in step 2 above.
Suddenly two threads were started about something on a computer in another language.
I came to this thread thinking,"YES! FINALLY A CURE!" Then I realized that I haven't had that problem since I reinstalled Windows 7. So I was actually sadder then before I knew about this topic.
Turn your game to windowed mode, go to the little keyboard on your taskbar near the hidden icons, and it should say 'French-Canadian'. I had this problem when I was on vista as well, it kept changing to russian when I was ingame.
Try pressing Ctrl-Shift at the same time.
[QUOTE=Beartato;19573271]Try holding down Alt and then hit Shift.[/QUOTE]
Fix'd :downs:
C'est un mysterié.
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