On my machine (Win 2000), I can toggle between US and UK keyboard layouts by
pressing Alt-Shift
This affects only the active application.
Have a look at the keyboard settings in Control Panel, I believe that you
can turn this behaviour off.
Cheers,
Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yar Hwee Boon" <hboon at motionobj.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Keyboard enters unintended characters such as £ and @


> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:13:03 +0200 (CEST), Torsten Sadowski
> <moehl at akaflieg.extern.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> > Which operating system are you using? It might simply be your OS
changing
> > into a different (judging from the £ completely british) locale.
>
> Windows XP Pro. No, during those occassions I tried entering characters in
> notepad and it was OK. I even tried an external keyboard (I'm using a
> laptop).
>
> -- 
> Regards
> HweeBoon
> MotionObj
>
>


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