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Posted by eRRaTiK on Jan-21-2008 02:36:

keyboard messed up

i have a HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook and I somehow pressed some combination on my keyboard that has messed up my question mark key.

when I try to type a question mark I get this -- �

wtf ��

any suggestions on how to return the key back to normal ��

Posted by BTG on Jan-21-2008 02:37:

press all your buttons randomly and hopfully a key that is stuck will become unstuck.

Posted by Orbital32 on Jan-21-2008 02:40:

go to the control panel, click on the keyboard, make sure it is set to english (US), English (Aye Mate) or whatever dialect you use.

Posted by eRRaTiK on Jan-21-2008 02:40:

yah been trying that... no go so far.��

Posted by eRRaTiK on Jan-21-2008 02:44:

quote:
Originally posted by Orbital32
go to the control panel, click on the keyboard, make sure it is set to english (US), English (Aye Mate) or whatever dialect you use.

nope, didn�t work.

Posted by eRRaTiK on Jan-21-2008 02:49:

hey I just noticed it�s a problem with firefox only. works fine in ms word and notepad.

Posted by eROs.au on Jan-21-2008 02:53:

format

Posted by Orbital32 on Jan-21-2008 03:23:

IN firefox go to the Tools>options>content>Fonts and colors (select Advanced)

select Western (ISO-8859-1) in character encoding and Fonts for western

Posted by L.E.N. on Jan-21-2008 04:23:

Cum will do that.

Posted by Fledz on Jan-21-2008 04:51:

Being in Canada can do that to you.

Posted by mezzir on Jan-21-2008 06:36:

restart
fixes everything
earlier tonight for some reason, my friend alt-tabbed out of counter strike (my computer has problems, and generally will crash if you do that). anyways, it didn't crash, but he went to google and clicked the text box, and started typing. backwards. it'd type a letter, then hit home essentially
so he searched for w/e it was, some camera thingy i think, by typing it backwards

Posted by Blahzaay on Jan-21-2008 06:52:

Posted by gehzumteufel on Jan-21-2008 07:19:

wow yalls suck.

in windows there is this great thing called the LANGUAGE bar. its down by the system tray. check to see what abbreviation it shows. if it doesnt show EN then hit Left alt+left shift and it will change. this is very useful if you use other character sets and learn the keyboard layouts. have fun anf!

Posted by Orbital32 on Jan-21-2008 08:12:

quote:
Originally posted by gehzumteufel
wow yalls suck.

in windows there is this great thing called the LANGUAGE bar. its down by the system tray. check to see what abbreviation it shows. if it doesnt show EN then hit Left alt+left shift and it will change. this is very useful if you use other character sets and learn the keyboard layouts. have fun anf!

he said it only affects firefox

Posted by gehzumteufel on Jan-21-2008 15:17:

quote:
Originally posted by Orbital32
he said it only affects firefox

john, please check again. application specific.

Posted by Orbital32 on Jan-21-2008 15:38:

quote:
Originally posted by gehzumteufel
john, please check again. application specific.

quote:
Originally posted by Orbital32
go to the control panel, click on the keyboard, make sure it is set to english (US), English (Aye Mate) or whatever dialect you use.

actually i did mean language options. I was doing it from memory. Of course if you went to the keyboard setting... no lanuguage options appear. Any hoot, i still don't think this would have solved his problem. the world may never know hehe.

Posted by eRRaTiK on Jan-21-2008 15:55:

quote:
Originally posted by Orbital32
IN firefox go to the Tools>options>content>Fonts and colors (select Advanced)

select Western (ISO-8859-1) in character encoding and Fonts for western

Western (ISO-8859-1) was already set.

quote:
Originally posted by mezzir
restart
fixes everything

BINGO. WINNAR!!

Though I still don't know how I got into that mode so as to avoid it next time. Oh wells.

Thanks geeks!

The question mark is now alive again!!

�C�mo se dice pen0r en espa�ol????

Posted by eROs.au on Jan-21-2008 17:59:

penolla

Posted by eRRaTiK on Jan-21-2008 18:03:

SAY IT LIKE YOU WANT IT biatch.

Posted by gehzumteufel on Jan-22-2008 03:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Orbital32
actually i did mean language options. I was doing it from memory. Of course if you went to the keyboard setting... no lanuguage options appear. Any hoot, i still don't think this would have solved his problem. the world may never know hehe.

heh well to be honest i used to use it quite often. i still do from time to time but not much anymore. although that will be changing as im taking german again! yay!

Posted by Ivand on Jan-22-2008 03:27:

pene

Posted by nchs09 on Jan-22-2008 03:29:

quote:
Originally posted by Ivand
pene

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on Jan-22-2008 03:30:

I'm having really odd keyboard issues as well. Every time I try to type the word 'blue', it comes out as 'blue'. See what I mean? Fuck, no you don't. Fuck, you can't help me. NOBODY CAN HELP ME. FUCK,..;' BLUE :{l;p[ ;'