Posted by Els on 10/16/85 11:25

rf wrote:

> Els wrote:
>
>> Could it be it's so easy I do it by accident? Regularly I find myself
>> typing in a program, and all of a sudden I have a Spanish keyboard
>> instead of American. The only way I know to get rid of it, is close
>> and restart the program. It never happens for the more than one prog
>> at a time - it's like I'm typing in MSN and it switches to Spanish
>> keyboard, but TextPad is still behaving nicely. Or vice versa. Even
>> happens in browsers. Means I can't type a URL anymore, cause the '/'
>> has changed position. I'd love to know what I did to make it happen,
>> so I can reverse it without closing the program.
>
> You have the Spanish input language installed (along I presume with English
> and Dutch). The input language is the service that maps the keyboard to the
> requirements of the particular language.
>
> In addition you have a hotkey set to activate Spanish. I don't know what the
> default is but in my system I have a few languages installed and, for
> example, Left Alt + Shift is the one to switch between languages. You mignt
> have something odd like Ctrl + Shift + s to change to Spanish and you
> sometimes accidently press Shift as well when you mean Ctrl + s to save.
>
> The "current language" is not system wide, it is specified on a per window
> basis. This is why it seems to you that it only happens with one program at
> a time. One window is set to Spanish, the rest are set to [English | Dutch].

Okay, sounds all like it's very easy to solve indeed, just have to
find the hotkeys used on this PC.

> Find the language bar thingo just to the left of the system tray, probably
> displays EN if you are in English. Right click properties and then Key
> Settings.

I had to dig it up again (taken it off from there for the sake of
space), and although I tick the language bar, it doesn't appear. I
also can't find the language/keyboard from the configuration window (I
keep forgetting what it's called in English)

I will find it back eventually though :-)

Thanks for the info :-)

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