The Case of the Missing Characters

[Anne Wilson]

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 at stevesearle.com> To: fedora-list at redhat.com> 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
> > don't really need it, having an international keyboard with dead keys, on
> > the useless key to the left of the right ctrl key.Could there be some
> > problem with keysim mappings or something? I thought that, since the keys
> > all line up, that there could be a problem with the keyboard, but as I
> > had said, it has only happened twice in the last 3 weeks and someone else
> > reported the problem on fedoraforum about 2 weeks ago.kwhiskerz{> >
> > Kwhiskerz,> > I have noticed that all your posts to this list appear to
> > me (in mutt),> as one long paragraph, very difficult to read.  I don't
> > know if it is> becuase you are using hotmail, perhaps with it sending
> > html email.> > You may get more responses if you change it so they are
> > more readable.> > Steve> > -- > > A:  Because it messes up the order in
> > which people normally read text.> Q:  Why is top-posting a bad thing?> > 
> > 19:07:39 up 166 days, 21:34,  2 users,  load average: 0.09, 0.06,
> > 0.00Youmeanlikethisinstead of complete sentences and paragraphs?
>
> No - as you can see from the above even your separating of each word
> onto a different line is getting wrapped together, although when I look
> at the html attachment I see them separately.
>
> Is anyone else seeing these mangled, or is it just me?
>
KMail shows it mangled like that.

Anne
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