Keyboard problems

Kanpai · 1 Apr 2012 at 16:30

Right so basically a friend of mine is having a problem using French on their keyboard in Firefox/Skype and other online software. The problem is whenever they try to insert a special character such as é the shortcut is ^ + e. However It keeps doing this instead ^^ + e and thus doesn't work. This doesn't happen in Office or notepad but only on online programs.

Tried to uninstall drivers etc but no luck, win7 keyboard/language settings are correct and no changes have been made there. Tried different usb ports too and a diff comp on which it works so it's Windows itself.

OS is Windows 7 Pro x64 with Logitech G110 keyboard

Any idea what this could be and how to fix it? Any help would be appreciated.

TIA

Kanpai · 1 Apr 2012 at 17:29

Hmm that sucks to be honest. It just happened randomly though, it was working fine before and then it suddenly stopped working.

Kanpai · 1 Apr 2012 at 17:43

Think you misunderstood mate, French (Belgian) is the default one they want. Tried updating drivers/software but no luck

Kanpai · 1 Apr 2012 at 17:48

No worries, thanks for your help anyways

Kanpai · 1 Apr 2012 at 23:12

Thanks for the help guys, problem fixed! Turns out there was a toolbar that was blocking the French keyboard from working correctly, uninstalled it and works fine now!