The Case of the Missing Characters, revisited

[Steve Searle]

Around 07:42pm on Thursday, February 01, 2007 (UK time), kwhiskerz kwhiskerz scrawled:

> 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, and have the system set to use utf-8,
> which is the default.I have also enabled the xkbd compose key option
> on the useless key to the left of the right ctrl key.This has only occurred 2 or 3 times in the last 2 weeks.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 someone else reported the problem on fedoraforum about 2
> weeks ago.kwhiskerz{

That one worked.

I haven't had the keyboard problem myself, however.

Steve

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A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q:  Why is top-posting a bad thing?

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