Single quote prints umlaut y??

Legofranak · 03-11-2009, 06:48 AM

I'm getting the strangest occasional error when I try to type a single quote: it sometimes prints the y-with-umlaut (two dots on top) character. I cannot for the life of me figure out the relationship between these two characters! It pops up every now and then--I'd say about twice a week--and doesn't go back until I restart my system. It's not debilitating or anything, just really annoying and confusing. It's not confined to any particular program, either; although I notice it most in my web browser (Firefox), that could well be because I use the browser more than anything else, and once it happens anything I try to type makes that error (e.g. in MS Word, Notepad, etc.).

Any thoughts?

Dell Inspiron 1318
Windows Vista Home Premium, SP1
Firefox v3.0.7

lawrence.cook · 03-11-2009, 09:58 AM

goto regional and language settings and make sure you have selected the right keyboard layout

Legofranak · 03-16-2009, 07:15 AM

You got it, thanks! I have another English keyboard layout + Hebrew and for some reason left alt-shift only switches to the Hebrew keyboard and doesn't cycle through the two English ones...

I set left alt-shift-1 to the regular English keyboard. All is well.

03-11-2009, 06:48 AM	#1 (permalink)
Legofranak Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 6 OS: Windows 7 Ultimate	Single quote prints umlaut y?? I'm getting the strangest occasional error when I try to type a single quote: it sometimes prints the y-with-umlaut (two dots on top) character. I cannot for the life of me figure out the relationship between these two characters! It pops up every now and then--I'd say about twice a week--and doesn't go back until I restart my system. It's not debilitating or anything, just really annoying and confusing. It's not confined to any particular program, either; although I notice it most in my web browser (Firefox), that could well be because I use the browser more than anything else, and once it happens anything I try to type makes that error (e.g. in MS Word, Notepad, etc.). Any thoughts? Dell Inspiron 1318 Windows Vista Home Premium, SP1 Firefox v3.0.7

03-11-2009, 09:58 AM	#2 (permalink)
lawrence.cook Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: England Posts: 187 OS: Vista 7 Ultimate x64	Re: Single quote prints umlaut y?? goto regional and language settings and make sure you have selected the right keyboard layout

03-16-2009, 07:15 AM	#3 (permalink)
Legofranak Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 6 OS: Windows 7 Ultimate	Re: Single quote prints umlaut y?? You got it, thanks! I have another English keyboard layout + Hebrew and for some reason left alt-shift only switches to the Hebrew keyboard and doesn't cycle through the two English ones... I set left alt-shift-1 to the regular English keyboard. All is well.