The Case of the Missing Characters

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 1 22:15:14 UTC 2007


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 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
<snip>
These run on messages usually happen when someone mails to me from a
Windows machine (maybe in HTML , I am not sure)
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