Re: CONFIRMED problem with Entourage changing Keyboard Layout - UPDATED

Tech-Archive recommends: Fix windows errors by optimizing your registry

Probably totally irrelevant--but worth trying since you don't mention it: I
used to notice (Panther 10.3.9, nothing extra with regards to keyboards)
that my keyboard layout changed occasionally, independently of me. There is
actually a preference for "try to match keyboard with text", which seems to
reduce this problem for me (System Preferences, International, Input Menu,
click on Options). Have you tried making sure that is unchecked? (mine may
have been checked by default, I'm not sure)


On 11/29/05 12:30 AM, "Nick Collingridge" wrote:

> I (along with many other people) have been suffering from a problem with
> keyboard layouts being changed without any user intervention for a long time
> now (many months). The symptoms are as follows:
>
> I have a Logitech keyboard and have the keyboard layout installed for it.
> The appropriate layout for me is "Logitech UK Intl". However from time to
> time this layout gets switched without my intervention to the standard UK
> (British) layout. This is INTENSELY annoying as all of a sudden some of the
> keys start producing the wrong characters (particularly the @ key suddenly
> becomes the " key). There is no warning at all - it just changes and the
> only way I discover it's changed is when I type one of the changed keys and
> get a character other than the one I expected.
>
> I know that this also happens with other localised keyboard layouts from
> reports from other sufferers that I have seen on the web.
>
> The only remedy that I've discovered up to now is to remove the Roman.bundle
> layout file from the appropriate folder in the System folder, but this makes
> Word become very unstable, so I've reverted to the standard OS default of
> this file being installed.
>
> I have been berated in the past for accusing Microsoft products of causing
> this change, but up to now I've never been able to "catch one in the act",
> so to speak. However I have now definitively found a case where this happens
> with Entourage, as follows:
>
> Open the Accounts dialog, and click on the New button - the keyboard layout
> INSTANTLY changes to British - no question about it, Entourage is DEFINITELY
> guilty as charged. Why does this happen? I guess this HAS to be a bug in the
> code.
>
> Now try and deny that this is a problem caused by Microsoft!!!
>
> MICROSOFT MACBU - PLEASE FIX THIS - IT IS DRIVING ME (AND MANY OTHERS) MAD!!
>
> ALSO - PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF THIS ISSUE!
>
> This is the first definitive proof of a categorical cause for the problem.
> It is very difficult to pin this one down as there is nothing in any log to
> indicate that the keyboard layout has been changed, and no clues anywhere
> about why it has happened. The only way of tracking the guilty app down is
> to notice that the keyboard layout has changed by having the active layout
> displayed in the menu bar and then noticing that it has changed at the exact
> time that it does change...
>
> MacOS X 10.4.3, Entourage 11.2.1
>
>

.

Quantcast