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...?

 

[John Wunderlich]

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