[Gllug] Keyboard Oddity

[Bruce Richardson]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:36:32PM +0100, Stephen wrote:
> 
> PS I just found out if I hit space after the intended character it seems 
> to work viz:

Which locale do you have set?  Does this problem occur in xterms, in web
forms in a graphical browser like firefox, in any random GUI program you
can find that has text entry, at the console (i.e. not in X)?  I bet it
doesn't happen everywhere.

This sounds as if you may have a problem with UTF-8 and your font
settings or with a particular programme that doesn't handle UTF-8.  In
UTF-8, some characters will be encoded with one byte, others with two or
more.  In any context where the Unicode support/configuration isn't
consistent, you can see these multi-byte characters being handled
incorrectly, being mistaken for multiple characters with the effect that
odd control characters are inserted into the output.

-- 
Bruce

What would Edward Woodward do?
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