The Case of the Missing Characters, revisited

[jdow]

From: "kwhiskers{" <kuiskers at telus.net>

> On February 1, 2007, jdow wrote:
>
>>
>> Hook up any old alternative and see if that set of characters works or 
>> not.
>> If it works and the other keyboard doesn't - maybe NewEgg or one of its
>> competitors could provide a German keyboard. Shipping might take a
>> long time or be expensive, though.
>>
>> {^_^}
>
> That's a great suggestion. I hadn't thought of it, but I would have to buy 
> a
> new keyboard to do it, as I don't have ready access to another right now. 
> The
> curious ting, though, was that it only seems to happen about once a week, 
> for
> about 3-5 minutes, and then all is okay. I'd have to wait quite a while
>
> I may have to resort to this, if nothing else works or it gets worse.
>
> Was talking to a local shop and they can indeed get foreign keyboards, but 
> I
> don't now how fast.
>
> I have not being able to type äüßöáà and the like. There is the xkbd 
> compose
> key as an option, but the extra keys on a 105-key keyboard are so nice.
>
> Wonder why they don't just make all standard keyboards Western European
> compatible, instead of all these different numbers of keys?
>
> -- 
> kwhiskers{

Your skateboard is bigger than mine?

Unfortunately the layouts that I like end up looking like they want to have 
wheels
mounted on them for use as skateboards. I have to protect them from 
teenagers.
(Fortunately, that is no big problem.)

{^_-}