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mysterious (encoding?) problem
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guanxi |
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mysterious (encoding?) problem |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Nov 2004 18:44:48 -0500 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) |
I hope someone can solve this mystery. I suspect I'm hitting an odd key
combination, but can't figure it out.
Occasionally, maybe every other day, I run into this odd problem:
No matter what letter I type, lower or uppercase, Emacs inserts a
question mark "?". My hex editor and other text editors shows them as
question marks, so it isn't a display issue.
Other programs work fine. Exiting that instance of Emacs (even leaving
other instances open) and loading a new instance with the same file
fixes the problem.
More mysterious details:
* The numbers, 1-0, come out as, in order:
!??ยง%:.;,/
* Shift+[1-0] outputs the numbers themselves:
1234567890
* M-f is interpreted as C-M-f (which my Windows hotkey to start Firefox).
* M-> (end of buffer) is ignored -- nothing happens.
* Most standard C- commands work. So while typing "n" outputs "?",
typing C-n navigates normally.
* IIRCC, with multiple instances of Emacs open, only one is typically
affected. The other instances work fine.
* Brief experience with the minibuffer suggests it behaves the same.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help. It's not the end of the
world, but it's annoying.
guanxi
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