On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 19:54 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 19:43, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 07:38pm on Thursday, February 01, 2007 (UK time), kwhiskerz > kwhiskerz > scrawled: > > > kwhiskerz{> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:21:31 +0000> From: > > > steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: > The Case > > > of the Missing Characters> > Around 07:53pm on Wednesday, January > 31, > > > 2007 (UK time), kwhiskerz kwhiskerz scrawled:> > > In the last 2-3 > weeks, > > > I have had the following happen on at least 2 occasions. Someone > also > > > mentioned it on fedoraforum.org, so this is not unique to my > keyboard.I > > > have noticed that when I am typing, the letters v,b,f,g,r,t,4,5 do > not > > > always type, making it very difficult to write emails and enter > commands. > > > The curious thing, as I just ascertained a moment ago, is that the > > > missing characters all line up diagonally on the keyboard.I am > using the > > > pc105 character german keyboard setting with all dead keys, like > it is > > > supposed to be, and have the system set to use utf-8, which is the > > > default. I have also enabled the xkbd compose key option, although > I <snip> These run on messages usually happen when someone mails to me from a Windows machine (maybe in HTML , I am not sure) -- ======================================================================= You're not my type. For that matter, you're not even my species!!! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx