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Keyboard weirdness on G4 powerbook

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Morpheus167

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Sep 21, 2005
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I have a relatively new 17 inch G4 Powerbook. (3 months old). It has worked brilliantly, up until a few hours ago. All of a sudden I am having problems with 7 keys on my keyboard... the 3 keys to the right of the P, the single&double quote key, and the 3 keys to the right of the M key. When ever I press them I get some weird text. Below is an example of what I get, instead of what I am supposed to get:

Open curly brace : ^¨
Close curly brace : çÇ
Pipe : àÀ
quotes : èÈ
question mark : éÉ

Any ideas

As a note, was using a wireless mac keyboard just before all of this started happening, but Ièm not using it any more.

Thanks for any help you can give me

Kevin
 
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Morpheus167 said:
I have a relatively new 17 inch G4 Powerbook. (3 months old). It has worked brilliantly, up until a few hours ago. All of a sudden I am having problems with 7 keys on my keyboard... the 3 keys to the right of the P, the single&double quote key, and the 3 keys to the right of the M key. When ever I press them I get some weird text. Below is an example of what I get, instead of what I am supposed to get:

Open curly brace : ^¨
Close curly brace : çÇ
Pipe : àÀ
quotes : èÈ
question mark : éÉ

Any ideas

As a note, was using a wireless mac keyboard just before all of this started happening, but Ièm not using it any more.

Thanks for any help you can give me

Kevin
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Sounds like you are locked into an alternate keyboard. I recall in OS 9 there was some keyboard switch you could make so you can type in all these extra symbols, but forget in OS X how to get there.
 
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sukhoi

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Feb 23, 2005
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Morpheus167 said:
I have a relatively new 17 inch G4 Powerbook. (3 months old). It has worked brilliantly, up until a few hours ago. All of a sudden I am having problems with 7 keys on my keyboard... the 3 keys to the right of the P, the single&double quote key, and the 3 keys to the right of the M key. When ever I press them I get some weird text. Below is an example of what I get, instead of what I am supposed to get:

Open curly brace : ^¨
Close curly brace : çÇ
Pipe : àÀ
quotes : èÈ
question mark : éÉ

Any ideas

As a note, was using a wireless mac keyboard just before all of this started happening, but Ièm not using it any more.

Thanks for any help you can give me

Kevin
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not sure but maybe you wanna try this...

System Prefs -> International -> input menu......

choose US then back to which ever you want....i mean play around with it...maybe its got binded to some other language...

as i said not sure it will work but best of luck...cheers
 
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Morpheus167

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Sep 21, 2005
2
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sukhoi said:
not sure but maybe you wanna try this...

System Prefs -> International -> input menu......

choose US then back to which ever you want....i mean play around with it...maybe its got binded to some other language...

as i said not sure it will work but best of luck...cheers
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Thanks, that was it. Some how my keyboard was bound to Japanese... how that happened I have no idea!! I've never even opened that system pref window before.

Kevin
 
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